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  • "Gang warfare, maybe," Eliot theorizes.†   (source)
  • I theorize, I take walks, I admire the trees and houses.†   (source)
  • As Candy and I talked it over later, we theorized that the phone company looked at the charges, and some executive decided that no one could possibly talk that long.†   (source)
  • Carlisle theorizes that it's because their lives are so ruled by their transformations.†   (source)
  • "We could theorize that your room here's a safe zone, but that's off because mine isn't, and it's two doors down.†   (source)
  • The coroner, Dr. Robert Fenton, reported an appreciable difference in the body temperatures of the victims, and, on this basis, theorized that the order of execution had been: Mrs. Clutter, Nancy, Kenyon, and Mr. Clutter.†   (source)
  • There's a famous jazz musician named Gordy Johnson (which we theorized could explain the rumor the eye-shop man had heard about our Gordy Johnson).†   (source)
  • The gold box, Wunderman theorized, was a kind of trigger.†   (source)
  • You're out of temper with me this evening—I get on your nerves with my theorizing.†   (source)
  • It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.†   (source)
  • Except to pester Nina with questions, and to theorize and trade notes with my fellow A&O newbies about what was what, I kept to myself.†   (source)
  • Initially it was theorized that the Soviets had somehow staked out one particular route, that their submarines were able to follow it at high speed.†   (source)
  • Kellerman had theorized it was a blindfold they had made the colonel wear.†   (source)
  • Watching the water run in rivulets over his hands, he theorized that silicon could be layered in a similar fashion onto a circuit, dramatically increasing its surface area and capacity.†   (source)
  • He had no interest in theorizing, conjecture, high-blown sentiments.†   (source)
  • Through my studies, I have learned that the great vampire philosopher Diogenes once theorized that there is a way to steal the status, the traits, the power of the Pravus.†   (source)
  • Act first, theorize later; that's also a formula, a devastatingly effective one!†   (source)
  • My voice was never that important, but I'll grant you it's the reflection of a great many others whose projections were, because they never risked, they only theorized.†   (source)
  • "Well, everyone's been theorizing that Sebastian might be in a different dimension, since he's untrackable," said Isabelle.†   (source)
  • Miss Boon theorized that Bram's unfortunate daughter had inherited all of the Archmage's power and none of his constitution.†   (source)
  • What's the use of theorizing?†   (source)
  • The behaviour of certain creatures he could theorize on for hours with V. C. de Silva.†   (source)
  • Tappan was heartened by the sympathies being expressed and theorized that the Africans' tour may be extended to generate more interest and funds exceeding the $5,000 needed.†   (source)
  • There are those who would theorize that you haven't gotten past your ex-wife.†   (source)
  • Until he does, I'll go on theorizing and the Freedom League will go on fulminating.†   (source)
  • I could only theorize that this was some psychic extension of the prudish way she doubtless had to cloak herself in the rigid Catholic community of prewar Cracow, a practice she must have found hard to abandon.†   (source)
  • So, they theorized, you don't even attempt to hook up such a device.†   (source)
  • He'd tried to discuss Dostoyevsky and drawn blank stares while theorizing about Raskolnikov's need to suffer punishment.†   (source)
  • Snoopers were needed at once — whereupon we confirmed something that had been theorized: Bugs see by infrared.†   (source)
  • …in front of the camera and told how her parents were hypocrites and liars and how she was better, shacking up with some long-haired dope addick or whatever, and I thought, Now there's a lunatic if I ever see one, but then I read about how all these professors are right there behind her, saying all how a university is the experiment grounds for the future and how it's not enough to theorize about how society ought to be fixed, you have to act, even if some of the actions don't turn out.†   (source)
  • You might as well have asked a jockey to become a betting clerk as expect Leamas to abandon operational life for the tendentious theorizing and clandestine self-interest of Whitehall.†   (source)
  • Unlike the idle and well-to-do, they did not have the leisure for premature curiosity and theorizing about things that were not yet practical concerns.†   (source)
  • His had been the life of a scientist, a man whose time was spent in theorizing in an office or, at best, in a laboratory.†   (source)
  • Theorizing that they are still alive, could they, even with the help of a brilliant Martian race, have built such a town as this and aged it in so short a time?†   (source)
  • Anyway, this is no time for theorizing, Foaly.†   (source)
  • Police theorized the print had been made by a woman suffocating within.†   (source)
  • This is no time to theorize about who's right or wrong," the newspapers commented.†   (source)
  • One could theorize forever about what makes the perfect parent.†   (source)
  • I told them so-all those fool intellectual theorizers, like Wesley!†   (source)
  • Police theorized that Pomeroy might actually have been killed near Highway 9 and washed into the Wildlife Preserve during the spring run-off.†   (source)
  • I theorized—and it turned out to be correct—that since her brain was being slowly destroyed from the age of 7, chances were that many of her functions had been transferred to other areas during the process.†   (source)
  • Detective Geyer theorized that Holmes must have sensed an excess of neighborly scrutiny and changed his plans.†   (source)
  • The fire department suspected arson; police theorized that whoever set the fire had wanted to destroy the secrets still embedded within.†   (source)
  • The coroner, unable to find any marks of violence, theorized that Holmes had locked the girls in the big trunk, then filled it with gas from a lamp valve.†   (source)
  • They theorized the remains might be the last traces of two Texas women, Minnie and Anna Williams, whom Chicago police had only recently learned were missing.†   (source)
  • It has been theorized (especially by William G. Throneberry and Julia Givens, Berkeley) that resurgence of the TK ability at this point was caused by both psychological factors (i. e., the reaction of the other girls and Carrie herself to their first menstrual period) and physiological factors (i. e., the advent of puberty).†   (source)
  • One was brown and the other blue, leading many students to theorize that the unusual feature was related somehow to her gifts in mystics.†   (source)
  • He'd often theorized, on the basis of the gold wristwatch found tucked in the toe of a shoe in her closet, that Nancy had awakened, heard persons in the house, thought they might be thieves, and prudently hidden the watch, her most valuable property.†   (source)
  • They theorized that the Elders had started their own schools of magic and might have even infiltrated our ranks.†   (source)
  • "It's perfectly useless to theorize about the future," snapped Taggart, "when we have to take care of the emergency of the moment.†   (source)
  • "We can't theorize about the future," cried Wesley Mouch, "when here's an immediate national collapse to avoid!†   (source)
  • He phoned Mars Junction, New Boston, Arcadia, and Roosevelt City exchanges, theorizing that they would be logical places for persons to dial from; after that he contacted local city halls and other public institutions in each town.†   (source)
  • …a communication addressed to Himmler on that third day of October—a day Sophie remembered as having the first brisk bite of autumn in it, despite the pervasive murky smoke and stench which so blunted one's perception of the change of season—Hoss theorized that there was one of four possible reasons, or perhaps a combination of the four, which caused the Greek Jews to be dragged off the cattle cars and boxcars in such a sorry state of deterioration, indeed with so many of the prisoners…†   (source)
  • If you thought toward something outside, it might be Padilla theorizing on the size of the universe; his scientific interest kept the subject from being grim.†   (source)
  • That was done purposely, because, even if the time had come for such a valuation—and it is far more important at the moment to know how much money women had and how many rooms than to theorize about their capacities—even if the time had come I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter, not even in Cambridge, where they are so adept at putting people into classes and fixing caps on their heads and letters after their names.†   (source)
  • Now don't start in theorizing about time again," Joachim said.†   (source)
  • I was very tired and sleepy, and soon my theorizing passed into dozing.†   (source)
  • She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment.†   (source)
  • "I will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson," said he; "I wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possible manner to me, and you can leave me to do the theorizing."†   (source)
  • Gabriel theorized, not without truth, that in quiet discussion of any matter within reach of the speakers' eyes, these are usually fixed upon it.†   (source)
  • Even idleness is eager now—eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, art museums, periodical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scientific theorizing and cursory peeps through microscopes.†   (source)
  • Perhaps that was a more cheerful time for observers and theorizers than the present; we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom; and about 1829 the dark territories of Pathology were a fine America for a spirited young adventurer.†   (source)
  • It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it theorize.
  • —The bard's fellowcountrymen, John Eglinton answered, are rather tired perhaps of our brilliancies of theorising.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it theorizing.
  • "I'm not theorising.†   (source)
  • The American language that he described and argued for was seldom the actual tongue of the folks about him, but often a sort of Volapük made up of one part faulty reporting and nine parts academic theorizing.†   (source)
  • Such grammar, so-called, as is taught in our schools and colleges, is a grammar standing four-legged upon the theorizings and false inferences of English Latinists, eager only to break the wild tongue of Shakespeare to a rule; and its frank aim is to create in us a high respect for a book language which few of us ever actually speak and not many of us even learn to write.†   (source)
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