How to Use hypothesis in a Sentence

hypothesis

noun
  • The results of the experiment did not support his hypothesis.
  • Their hypothesis is that watching excessive amounts of television reduces a person's ability to concentrate.
  • Other chemists rejected his hypothesis.
  • These hypotheses are about to be put to a test.
    — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • As to what that is, Cook points to two hypotheses.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • While there are many hypotheses, no one had been able to figure it out.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018
  • The sleepy-carbs hypothesis is just the start.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The hypothesis seemed like a dead end.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The coming days and weeks will put that hypothesis to the test.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And my hypothesis is that this has changed the way the midterm electorate thinks.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The study backs up that hypothesis.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The hypothesis is that our brain uses two modules to try to make sense of the world.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
  • If the hypothesis was true, how would the virus jump from feral dogs to people?
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • But like the others, prove it against a big boy to confirm the hypothesis.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • That was my hypothesis, that Shane or his mother got her the purse.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Many of your hypotheses will die in discovery.
    — Rocky Sharma, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • But researchers did not have the data to back up this hypothesis.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Online trolls have come up with their own hypotheses for the internal strife.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Mid-year is the moment to treat your business like a hypothesis.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • On Friday, there were clues to support both of those hypotheses.
    — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Well, that my hypothesis was true, but by the tiniest margins.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2021
  • But the big questions about other worlds had to be answered with a shrug and a hypothesis.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2019
  • The hypothesis is that the first shot is your body getting the building block of a protein.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Voila, the one-big-brain hypothesis comes back into the picture.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The aim may be to work out a structure, answer a question, or test a hypothesis.
    — John Drake, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • His hypothesis is that the woman was accused by a neighbor with a grudge.
    — Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Past pandemics have paved the way for the zoonotic hypothesis.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2021
  • What is the panspermia hypothesis (did life come from outer space)?
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The working hypothesis is that this is what happened in the most recent case.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 Mar. 2021
  • For now, the idea is just a hypothesis, and there’s a lot more work needed to validate it.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026

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