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[poz-it] / ˈpɒz ɪt /


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To be sure, it’s easier to posit electrical issues External link for the 787, which entered service in 2011.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

With these comments, Noem, Vance, and others defending the officer posit that if Good had simply followed orders and gotten out of the car, none of this would have happened.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

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

It’s not much of a stretch to posit that such a rash of misfortune dealt a serious blow to Waterman’s young psyche.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Every tweet is met with an infinite scroll of rejoinders; no observation she posits goes unpunished.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Maybe, he posits, we shouldn’t forget so easily.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The exhibit further posits that the Dutch brought with them the business-friendly entrepreneurial attitudes that helped make New York the center of commerce and capitalism it remains today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He posits that millions of Americans who were born in this country to parents without papers “have a strong moral claim to be able to remain in the land where they grew up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Some experts have also posited that being rude to AI chatbots could adversely impact human communication, by seeping into how we talk to and treat others.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

While Samsung routinely pipes up around Apple’s phone releases, iPhone users don’t even know when Samsung Galaxy releases occur, Richard Bruckner, a comedian and iPhone 17 Pro owner, posited in a viral social-media post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

This film is not merely glittering debris, as some have posited, nor is it style over substance; it’s a campfire story told by Thatcher’s unearthly orator.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 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

Starvation was posited as the most probable cause of death.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Rather than confirm Lawrence’s results, Caltech’s Lauritsen contradicted them, positing that the neutrons produced by his bombardments had come from disintegrating targets, not disintegrating deutons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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