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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

As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

This idea postulates that brain rhythms organize the otherwise massive number of possible outcomes that could result from, say, 1,000 neurons engaging in independent spiking activity.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

In the Science Fiction Novella “Nightfall”, Isaac Asimov postulates how a civilization would face a solar eclipse in a multiple star solar system that only experienced night once every two thousand years.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024

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

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

By doing so, they have corroborated an extremely interesting phenomenon that Nobel Prize laureate Frank Wilczek postulated around ten years ago and which had already found its way into science fiction movies.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

It postulated that grandiose traits such as arrogance and assertiveness conceal feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023

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

He became rather technical; spoke of the abnormal endocrine co-ordination which made men grow so slowly; postulated a germinal mutation to account for it.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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