posit

Example Sentences

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Perhaps, somebody posited, he took a day trip to Liverpool and got stranded on the wrong side of the Mersey?

From BBC

He posited that opera’s magic lies in its inherent ambiguity and its true power is rebirth.

From The Wall Street Journal

"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

"It's not for me to posit whether it's the beginning, the middle or the end."

From Barron's

Stopping such practices will be incredibly hard without legislation, Lambert of the Allen Institute said, which he posited could be a goal of Anthropic drawing attention to the matter.

From MarketWatch