postulate

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Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that microbes can cause illness.

From Salon

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

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

It has since been postulated that so-called cognitive reserve might account for this differential protective effect in individuals.

From Science Daily

The research is anchored in a theory postulating that emotions are generated when human cognition evaluates events from various perspectives.

From Science Daily