Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with hypothesis in American Collocation
hypothesis
noun
countable
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Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
reasonable
It is unjustified to reject this quite plausible hypothesis on the basis that some inconclusive evidence implies that all evidence is spurious.
not proved, but being tested
This is of course only a tentative hypothesis, but there is a fair bit of supporting evidence.
capable of being tested
He provides no testable hypotheses, only a lot of vague, unscientific speculation.
form a hypothesis
You might like to formulate a hypothesis to investigate this.
test a hypothesis to see if it is correct
This is a practical demonstration of how corpora can be used to investigate a particular linguistic hypothesis.
prove a hypothesis is not correct
Scholars doubt and disprove hypotheses until they are upheld by the evidence.
prove a hypothesis is correct
Their results partly supported these hypotheses.
say you think a hypothesis is probably not correct
When religious hypotheses are refuted by scientists, the theists will go on believing anyway.
say you think a hypothesis is probably correct
Now, for the sake of argument we will accept the hypothesis that he is right.