(~s, hypothesizing, ~d)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'hypothesise'
If you ~ that something will happen, you say that you think that thing will happen because of various facts you have considered. (FORMAL)
To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected...
I have long ~d a connection between these factors.
VERB: V that, V n, also V