posit
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I only posit that it’s important to understand art — especially contentious art about pertinent crises — on a cellular level to learn what it, and our responses to it, can teach us.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
"It's not for me to posit whether it's the beginning, the middle or the end."
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
Martin, who made himself a household name in the States with English-language songs like “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and “She Bangs,” never tried to posit himself as a revolutionary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
The indictment mentions the nine specific games but says there were more than 100 total bets on Clase and does not posit an upper bound of how often this happened.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2025
It’s not much of a stretch to posit that such a rash of misfortune dealt a serious blow to Waterman’s young psyche.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Every tweet is met with an infinite scroll of rejoinders; no observation she posits goes unpunished.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Mr. Macintyre posits that without Kuzichkin’s intelligence haul, the Soviets might have taken control of Iran, giving them vital access to the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Which is why, Thompson posits, busy celebrities are drawn to it — it’s efficient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Less publicity has been given to his observations regarding the Phillips curve, which posits a trade-off between inflation and unemployment.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Ah, but most of them are complacent,” Nansi posits.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Some experts have also posited that being rude to AI chatbots could adversely impact human communication, by seeping into how we talk to and treat others.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
While Samsung routinely pipes up around Apple’s phone releases, iPhone users don’t even know when Samsung Galaxy releases occur, Richard Bruckner, a comedian and iPhone 17 Pro owner, posited in a viral social-media post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Citizen Kane” posited that all media moguls are driven by a lust for power that stems from an irreparable brokenness.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Myriad other reasons have been posited, such as increased use of contraception, more female education, and growing housing or childcare costs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
In fact, the cyclotron had been working perfectly well with beams far more defocused by imperfections in the magnetic field—those bothersome irregularities combated by shimming—than they would be by the relativistic effects that Bethe posited.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Sheinbaum has sought to avoid confrontation with Trump while also positing herself as a defender of Mexican sovereignty.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Some seasoned startup investors had a more measured read, positing that Anthropic’s updated language was an effort to simplify its investor list as it prepares for an initial public offering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“Society of the Snow” resists positing the consumption of the survivors’ dead friends as a gruesome act.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
The former pop stars debuted the begrudgingly catchy bop — “an ode to boy bands from start to finish” — Tuesday along with what AAA is positing as a viral social media campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Rather than confirm Lawrence’s results, Caltech’s Lauritsen contradicted them, positing that the neutrons produced by his bombardments had come from disintegrating targets, not disintegrating deutons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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