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postulate

verb as in suppose, figure

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Even people who postulate a creative God usually acknowledge that his existence shifts the big question rather than resolving it.

While the war lasted, so he laid down, there must—apart from the postulate of Unity—be a truce to party struggles.

He receives as a postulate that which I must have demonstrated.

But I disagree with them all, because they postulate the idea that time is constantly being manufactured.

Mark Twain's early life, however imperfectly recorded, exemplifies this postulate.

All theologians and some metaphysicians postulate a fifth state of life, the divine, placing it above the rest as their source.

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On this page you'll find 88 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to postulate, such as: hypothesize, posit, presuppose, theorize, advance, and affirm.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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