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What most people don’t realize about the “Amadeus” version of Mozart’s story is that historians posit it is almost entirely fictional.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

"It's not for me to posit whether it's the beginning, the middle or the end. That's his," said the former Fox News host.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

The indictment mentions the nine specific games but says there were more than 100 total bets on Clase and does not posit an upper bound of how often this happened.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2025

She has done little to tamp the speculation since, though some posit she is merely expanding her profile ahead of a run for county executive in 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

And let me now posit this: 'dignity7 has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Which is why, Thompson posits, busy celebrities are drawn to it — it’s efficient.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Mr. Graham-Dixon posits that Baruch Spinoza, a “philosophical pantheist” and a friend of many Collegiants, was an influence on Vermeer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Less publicity has been given to his observations regarding the Phillips curve, which posits a trade-off between inflation and unemployment.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Since the conflict in Iran started, bond markets have anticipated more hawkish central banks globally, but the JPMorgan report posits that Iran is fading as a driver of interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

“Ah, but most of them are complacent,” Nansi posits.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

"Is it a 'machine', or a 'human'?" posited a sign next to the enormous machine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The researchers posited that the program’s quality may have deteriorated in recent decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

She posited that the value of a currency should reflect its purchasing power and the best way to assess this was to use one “perfect universal commodity” — the Big Mac.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century’s defining political thinkers, posited that modern life was making “being human superfluous”; her learned successor Lepore warns that our present bears out that idea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

In fact, the cyclotron had been working perfectly well with beams far more defocused by imperfections in the magnetic field—those bothersome irregularities combated by shimming—than they would be by the relativistic effects that Bethe posited.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Sheinbaum has sought to avoid confrontation with Trump while also positing herself as a defender of Mexican sovereignty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Some seasoned startup investors had a more measured read, positing that Anthropic’s updated language was an effort to simplify its investor list as it prepares for an initial public offering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

In late 2022, she made headlines after positing in an interview with RealLyfe Productions that the fallen music executive was behind the deaths of former Uptown Records figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Its writers never pretend that the Dales folk have lives free of difficulties, positing instead that the way to overcome hard times is to pull together, which isn’t always easy.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2024

“Are you positing that the squirrel typed those words?”

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo