posit

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Perhaps it’s one long defense of being a hater, as a Forbes story published a few weeks ago posits.

From Salon

Pro-Russia commentators started speculating about the possibility almost immediately, even as they posited that Mr. Gershkovich would first need to be tried and sentenced.

From New York Times

Biologists typically posit that human ancestors learned to walk on two legs on the savanna's flat expanses.

From Scientific American

In a study published Thursday in Science, researchers posit that Tyrannosaurs and related dinosaurs kept their dagger-like dentition hidden behind lip-like tissue.

From New York Times

A postcolonial backlash posited the opposite, arguing that the medieval Swahili culture was entirely African in origin.

From Science Magazine