posited

Example Sentences

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It posited an America that never existed in place of the one that does.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

Perhaps, somebody posited, he took a day trip to Liverpool and got stranded on the wrong side of the Mersey?

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

He posited that opera’s magic lies in its inherent ambiguity and its true power is rebirth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

In a desk note published Friday, he also posited that how Glencore approaches their coal and iron ore business strategically is key to stock performance in the next year.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 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