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postulate

[pos-chuh-leyt, pos-chuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt, ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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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 could postulate that about 80 percent of humans stand up in a similar way. Then we designed a controller around that trajectory."

From Science Daily May 15, 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

Scan the room where contestants gather at the competition's start, and you may postulate that the correct response rests in hulking muscles, low body fat and protein shake consumption.

From Salon Feb. 20, 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

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, they found that one of the postulates used in the 2021 analysis was more restrictive than necessary.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

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

The Big Bang theory postulates that the universe was inflated from a microscopic speck in a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, at a temperature of trillions degrees centigrade.

From Washington Post Jan. 28, 2023

The whole collection of different formulations could be regarded as a complete unified theory, though one that could not be expressed in terms of a single set of postulates.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Self-replication has been postulated to be central to the emergence of life, but the vast majority of its known manifestations require complex macromolecules like enzymes.

From Science Daily Jan. 24, 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

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

So Gasca and a wide array of City Section coaches have postulated something needed to change with seedings.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2023

"Or the wind died down a little," Beck postulated.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

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

And Peter Higgs’ theory postulating the so-called “God particle” named the Higgs boson didn’t win its Nobel until the actual particle was discovered by a massive European particle collider.

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2018

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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