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postulate

[pos-chuh-leyt, pos-chuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt, ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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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

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

Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect?

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin