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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

I speculated with a kind of wonder on the strength of the individuality of journeys and stopped on the postulate that people don't take trips—trips take people.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The "capture" hypothesis, meanwhile, postulates that the moons are asteroids pulled in by Mars's gravity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

These postulates take form in the attributes that seem so clearly to characterize littleness:

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

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

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

The noise that Penzias and Wilson were hearing was, of course, the noise that Gamow had postulated.

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

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

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

In their search for this primordial symmetry, however, physicists have gone off the deep end, postulating particles and energies and dimensions whose existence can never be experimentally verified.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 8, 2019

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