postulate
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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
“They postulate some ‘dark sector’ based on hypothetical dark matter physics, but it does not have any direct observational motivation.”
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
The team postulates that the iSN04-anchored nucleolin alters gene expression and Wnt signaling.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023
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
“Then let’s get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm’s due tomorrow.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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One tech expert postulated that Hugging Face was an example of an AI that got scared because it couldn’t complete its task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It has since been postulated that so-called cognitive reserve might account for this differential protective effect in individuals.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
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
The noise that Penzias and Wilson were hearing was, of course, the noise that Gamow had postulated.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
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
And Peter Higgs’ theory postulating the so-called “God particle” named the Higgs boson didn’t win its Nobel until the actual particle was discovered by a massive European particle collider.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
Because no one actually killed Reagan, O’Reilly keeps his lucrative series going by postulating that the bullet that struck Reagan in March 1981 kind of, sort of killed him, although he lived 23 more years.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2015
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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