All 6 Uses
theorize
in
The Devil in the White City
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- To explain the print's permanence, detectives theorized that Holmes, known to have an avid interest in chemistry, had first poured a sheen of acid onto the floor to hasten by chemical reaction the consumption of oxygen in the vault.†
p. 191.5 *
- Detective Geyer theorized that Holmes must have sensed an excess of neighborly scrutiny and changed his plans.†
p. 345.4
- 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.†
p. 358.6
- 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.†
p. 364.9
- Police theorized the print had been made by a woman suffocating within.†
p. 365.5
- The fire department suspected arson; police theorized that whoever set the fire had wanted to destroy the secrets still embedded within.†
p. 366.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(theorize) to form a theory (a belief about how something works or came about -- often without having absolute proof)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)