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What is the verb for theory?

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theoreticize
  1. Synonym of theoretize (“form a theoretical model of”)
  2. (rare) To make (something) theoretical, to treat (something) as if it were (merely) theoretical.
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theorize
  1. To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
  2. To speculate.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Plant researchers theorize that aubergines were first eaten on the Indian subcontinent.”
      “Researchers theorize that there could be an evolutionary explanation for the frog's ultrasonic hearing.”
      “The first stage of this process is to theorize capitalist globalization as a critical object.”
theorise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of theorize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Personally, I think that makes it fairly pointless to theorise about the exact nature of consciousness.”
      “Does the hard left still plan and theorise about how best to foment revolution in the UK, do they engage in entryism and agitation, and so forth?”
      “I must sprawl and flounder, comment and theorise, if I am to get the thing out I have in mind.”
theoretize
  1. (rare) To form a theory or theoretical model which explains (something); explain by a theory.
  2. Synonyms:
theorising
theorizing
theorem
  1. (transitive) To formulate into a theorem.
theoreticizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of theoreticize
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theoretizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of theoretize
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theorizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of theorize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He theorizes that human babies weren't meant to be born at forty weeks, but much later.”
      “One theorizes that perhaps Darger was replaying arguments he was too meek to engage in during the day.”
      “He theorizes that it may be a population-level adaptation, ensuring that the next generation is born before the old is afflicted with diseases like heartworm.”
theorises
theoreticized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of theoreticize
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theoretized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of theoretize
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theorised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of theorise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In this trajectory, she presents this set of essays as yet another ground upon which feminism was and is being theorised in India.”
      “It was also theorised that the remains of the seaport must have been washed away in floods during the 14th century.”
      “Gig-goers around us theorised that it was probably some sort of dirty protest against the quality of the songwriting.”
theorized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of theorize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Some have theorized that comic books serve the modern function of the epical myth.”
      “He theorized that the structure of these compounds were long, chainlike molecules and not aggregates or cyclic compounds as previously thought.”
      “But when heated to body temperature in a patient's bloodstream, the toxicologists theorized, it gasified, causing a fatal pulmonary embolism.”
theoreticizing
  1. present participle of theoreticize
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theoretizing
  1. present participle of theoretize
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