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theorizes

theorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of theorize.

Meaning of theorize

Verb

theorize (third-person singular simple present theorizes, present participle theorizing, simple past and past participle theorized)

  1. (intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
    • 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...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257
  2. (intransitive) To speculate.

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Questions about theorizes

What is theorizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Theorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of theorize.

Words near theorizes in the dictionary

  1. theorizations
  2. theorize
  3. theorized
  4. theorizer
  5. theorizers
  6. theorizes
  7. theorizing
  8. theorizings
  9. theorum
  10. theory
  11. theory of abrupt appearance

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