postulated

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

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025

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

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

All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas