postulate
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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
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
“They postulate some ‘dark sector’ based on hypothetical dark matter physics, but it does not have any direct observational motivation.”
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 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
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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
If this Little Man Theory is to be acknowledged and ultimately accepted, it must measure up to the call of any theory for testable hypotheses or postulates.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023
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 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
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It has since been postulated that so-called cognitive reserve might account for this differential protective effect in individuals.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 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
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
The theory then turns an observed rough correlation in time into a postulated chain of cause and effect.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Even postulating today’s miserable 2 percent growth, and ignoring compounding, GDP in 2100 would be 160 percent larger than today.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 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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