posited
Example Sentences
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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
Stopping such practices will be incredibly hard without legislation, Lambert of the Allen Institute said, which he posited could be a goal of Anthropic drawing attention to the matter.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026
Last weekend, a sensational report posited a future in which AI unleashes enough disruption and job destruction to bring on a deep recession and financial crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Starvation was posited as the most probable cause of death.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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