Theorycrafting

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is theorycrafted. countable, uncountable

    "For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of theorycraft form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code."

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