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postulate

[pos-chuh-leyt, pos-chuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt, ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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That being said, they postulate that the raise stemmed in part from a supply-demand imbalance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Researchers postulate that repeated exposure of this sort allowed the virus to push into the cells — a brute force entry more than a lock-picking.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

The infamous and problematic "measurement postulate" of quantum theory is not needed, since quantum superpositions necessarily localise through their interaction with classical spacetime.

From Science Daily Dec. 4, 2023

Conversely, however, you could postulate that there are other infinities between the cardinality of the natural and real numbers—and encounter no problems either.

From Scientific American Jul. 13, 2023

Coolly she pointed out that not a shred of evidence permitted Linus, or anyone else, to postulate a helical structure for DNA.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

This idea postulates that brain rhythms organize the otherwise massive number of possible outcomes that could result from, say, 1,000 neurons engaging in independent spiking activity.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2024

If this Little Man Theory is to be acknowledged and ultimately accepted, it must measure up to the call of any theory for testable hypotheses or postulates.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2023

There’s also string theory, which describes the universe as made of almost unimaginably small vibrating strings and, in current versions, postulates the existence of at least 10 dimensions.

From Scientific American Aug. 19, 2023

I started to think a lot about infinity, and what it was like there, and how all the postulates and theorems and principles were true across all the universe.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Because they found the melittin gene only in bees, the researchers also invalidated the hypothesis that it belongs to a group of venom genes postulated for stinging insects called aculeatoxins.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2023

It postulated that grandiose traits such as arrogance and assertiveness conceal feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem.

From Scientific American Aug. 16, 2023

Just as a thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger postulated that a cat could be in a quantum state that is both dead and alive, a qubit can be both 1 and 0 simultaneously.

From New York Times Jun. 14, 2023

So Gasca and a wide array of City Section coaches have postulated something needed to change with seedings.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2023

Maize originated, litis postulated, in a strange, wholesale mutation of teosinte, to which Indians added and subtracted features through intensive breeding.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The research is anchored in a theory postulating that emotions are generated when human cognition evaluates events from various perspectives.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

“I love Mario, and I don’t want to have a thing with him,” he said, before postulating that he and Paciorek did possibly coin the baseball expression “emergency swing.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 8, 2023

You wouldn’t think this because what needs explaining is why this monkey—the only one you’ve actually observed—is writing English, and postulating other monkeys doesn’t explain what this monkey is doing.

From Scientific American Jan. 10, 2021

Let me be clear: I am not postulating any sort of false equivalency.

From Washington Post Oct. 26, 2017

Flamsteed was one of the first people to suggest that the phenomenon was really a single object, postulating that it had been repelled from the Sun by some sort of magnetic effect.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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