postulate

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“It really is a reality check for all this political theory and political hype that we have going on in this country with the extreme left postulating these theories that have no connection to reality.”

From Salon

Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that microbes can cause illness.

From Salon

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

The physicists postulate that the color-charged black holes could have affected the balance of fusing nuclei, in a way that astronomers might someday detect with future measurements.

From Science Daily

It has since been postulated that so-called cognitive reserve might account for this differential protective effect in individuals.

From Science Daily