Hypotheses and probability

This suggests that …

One suggestion might be that …

… may be due to …

It may be that …

This may indicate …

This may reflect …

The most likely explanation for or of … is …

A number of tentative conclusions can be drawn

Provisionally, …

One solution might be …

One alternative might be …

One tentative proposal might be …

One scenario is that …

the potential effects of … on …

It is possible to speculate that …

One may speculate whether …

an educated guess

Another suggestion might be …

This finding has prompted the plausible speculation that …

This has led some authors to suggest that …

This has led some authors to speculate whether …

One suggestion, though purely conjecture, might be that …

In the absence of …, we can only speculate on …

Explanations of or for … remain highly speculative.

the probability that or of …

… is probably due to …

the most probable explanation

It is highly probable that …

Potentially, …

We estimate that …

Estimates suggest that …

Predictably, …

As forecast, …

we would predict that …

projections range from … to …

… tends or tend to …

… tends or tend to occur or be found in …

a or the tendency to …

it is or was inevitable that …

… would inevitably follow

The results were predictable

… was or were widely predicted

The results are or were as predicted