Example Sentences

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Theories suggest these particles can behave like coordinated waves near black holes.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Theories abound that Mayweather recognized his enduring marketability when Pacquiao fought astonishingly well in a draw against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

Theories on why he shifted position are American Kremlinology, but matter to investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Theories of body doubles abounded, as did the assertion that roads around Washington’s Walter Reed hospital had been shut down under conspicuous circumstances.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2025

Theories, it is said, explain phenomena, not data, and it is always possible to open up a gap between data and phenomena as well as between phenomena and theories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton