postulate
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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
We don't know, but the postquantum theory doesn't require the measurement postulate, because the classicality of spacetime infects quantum systems and causes them to localise.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
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
Those who postulate equivalency — that is, a lifetime appointment, absent impeachment — are unmoved.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2023
So in building models we would postulate that the sugar-phosphate backbone was very regular, and the order of bases of necessity very irregular.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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