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What most people don’t realize about the “Amadeus” version of Mozart’s story is that historians posit it is almost entirely fictional.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

"It's not for me to posit whether it's the beginning, the middle or the end. That's his," said the former Fox News host.

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

The exhibit further posits that the Dutch brought with them the business-friendly entrepreneurial attitudes that helped make New York the center of commerce and capitalism it remains today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He posits that millions of Americans who were born in this country to parents without papers “have a strong moral claim to be able to remain in the land where they grew up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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

Since the conflict in Iran started, bond markets have anticipated more hawkish central banks globally, but the JPMorgan report posits that Iran is fading as a driver of interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

“Ah, but most of them are complacent,” Nansi posits.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The researchers posited that the program’s quality may have deteriorated in recent decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

She posited that the value of a currency should reflect its purchasing power and the best way to assess this was to use one “perfect universal commodity” — the Big Mac.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century’s defining political thinkers, posited that modern life was making “being human superfluous”; her learned successor Lepore warns that our present bears out that idea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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

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

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

"He's positing this like it's a happy thing," Maddow argued.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

From being able to count all the known planets on two hands to cataloging thousands to positing the existence of trillions, we’ve made incredible progress in our census of worlds in the past 30 years.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023

These are things for research — I’m not positing that this is finished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

“You, a self-professed cynic, are positing that the squirrel is a superhero.”

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo