posited
Example Sentences
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He called it a strange game and posited the theory that the 2-1 win against Belarus last month, when Scotland were booed off, was a better three points than people imagined.
From BBC
James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling’s “broken windows” theory posited that crime is more than a willful act—it’s the product of a cultural atmosphere.
In another joint paper on “the illusion of validity,” that legendary duo posited that an apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.
From MarketWatch
In 1993, John B. Taylor formalized that concept with the “Taylor rule,” which posited that policy rates below the neutral rate would spur inflation, signaling the Fed to hike rates.
From Barron's
Sifting through research papers eventually led them to a law of induction posited by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
From Science Daily
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