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[poz-it] / ˈpɒz ɪt /


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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

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

With these comments, Noem, Vance, and others defending the officer posit that if Good had simply followed orders and gotten out of the car, none of this would have happened.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

Strategists at 22V Research posit the rising 30-year yield is more reflective of longer-term fiscal and inflation risks than the fed-funds rate.

From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025

“There are flying squirrels, you know. They exist. In fact, there are some theories that posit that all squirrels are descended from the flying squirrel. In any case, flying squirrels themselves are a documented fact.”

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

Which is why, Thompson posits, busy celebrities are drawn to it — it’s efficient.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Nations with sophisticated defense industries should team up for research and procurement, he posits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

"Is it a 'machine', or a 'human'?" posited a sign next to the enormous machine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

This film is not merely glittering debris, as some have posited, nor is it style over substance; it’s a campfire story told by Thatcher’s unearthly orator.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

The New York Fed researchers didn’t have a definitive answer for why charged-off loans are staying on credit records longer, though they posited that perhaps lenders changed their reporting practices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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

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

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

Its writers never pretend that the Dales folk have lives free of difficulties, positing instead that the way to overcome hard times is to pull together, which isn’t always easy.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 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

Their cosmology developed over time, but was notable for positing a perfectly spherical earth either in the center of the universe, or rotating around an ideal central fire.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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