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 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
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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
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
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
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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
Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that microbes can cause illness.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2025
Although much has been discovered about selfish element silencing in the thirty years since Denise Barlow postulated her theory, a direct connection between germline defense mechanisms and the origin of parent-of-origin effects was missing.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
One leading candidate traces back to a possibility postulated by Albert Einstein in 1917 to as a mathematical “fix” to his general theory of relativity.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023
This was a neutron much lighter than any other lab had postulated.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
“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
By postulating a random collapse, GRW theory destroys the possibility of knowing what led up to the collapsed state—which, by most accounts, means information about the system prior to its transformation becomes irrecoverably lost.
From Scientific American ● May 22, 2023
HGT has been shown to be an ever-present phenomenon, with many evolutionists postulating a major role for this process in evolution, thus complicating the simple tree model.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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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