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postulate

[pos-chuh-leyt, pos-chuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt, ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /




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That being said, they postulate that the raise stemmed in part from a supply-demand imbalance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Researchers postulate that repeated exposure of this sort allowed the virus to push into the cells — a brute force entry more than a lock-picking.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

"We could postulate that about 80 percent of humans stand up in a similar way. Then we designed a controller around that trajectory."

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

Conversely, however, you could postulate that there are other infinities between the cardinality of the natural and real numbers—and encounter no problems either.

From Scientific American Jul. 13, 2023

As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, they found that one of the postulates used in the 2021 analysis was more restrictive than necessary.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

These postulates take form in the attributes that seem so clearly to characterize littleness:

From Salon Sep. 10, 2023

There’s also string theory, which describes the universe as made of almost unimaginably small vibrating strings and, in current versions, postulates the existence of at least 10 dimensions.

From Scientific American Aug. 19, 2023

The whole collection of different formulations could be regarded as a complete unified theory, though one that could not be expressed in terms of a single set of postulates.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

One tech expert postulated that Hugging Face was an example of an AI that got scared because it couldn’t complete its task.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

It has since been postulated that so-called cognitive reserve might account for this differential protective effect in individuals.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

Just as a thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger postulated that a cat could be in a quantum state that is both dead and alive, a qubit can be both 1 and 0 simultaneously.

From New York Times Jun. 14, 2023

This is often called the "triune brain" theory, first postulated by neuroscientist Paul D. McLean and popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2023

It was imperative that there be postulated against what or whom Ross’s crimes had been committed.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

The research is anchored in a theory postulating that emotions are generated when human cognition evaluates events from various perspectives.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

Even postulating today’s miserable 2 percent growth, and ignoring compounding, GDP in 2100 would be 160 percent larger than today.

From Washington Post Oct. 26, 2022

HGT has been shown to be an ever-present phenomenon, with many evolutionists postulating a major role for this process in evolution, thus complicating the simple tree model.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

You wouldn’t think this because what needs explaining is why this monkey—the only one you’ve actually observed—is writing English, and postulating other monkeys doesn’t explain what this monkey is doing.

From Scientific American Jan. 10, 2021

Flamsteed was one of the first people to suggest that the phenomenon was really a single object, postulating that it had been repelled from the Sun by some sort of magnetic effect.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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