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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 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 ● Jun. 6, 2024

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

Of course it is in some sense an act of faith to postulate the existence of an actual girl, or even two.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

These postulates take form in the attributes that seem so clearly to characterize littleness:

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

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

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

This is often called the "triune brain" theory, first postulated by neuroscientist Paul D. McLean and popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023

I merely postulated that you call your grandfather ‘Grim’ because he's grim.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

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

In their search for this primordial symmetry, however, physicists have gone off the deep end, postulating particles and energies and dimensions whose existence can never be experimentally verified.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 8, 2019

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

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