theorize

present singular third person theorizes · participle present theorizing · participle past theorized · past theorized · alternative UK theorise

1. intransitiveTo formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.

   The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.

   2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2022

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   Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.

   2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257

   There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such).

   2018, Bernard Stiegler, Automatic Society: The Future of Work, page 152

   Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.

   2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188

2. intransitiveTo speculate.