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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

A strict materialist explanation must posit a so-far-unknown capability of the brain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

“There are flying squirrels, you know. They exist. In fact, there are some theories that posit that all squirrels are descended from the flying squirrel. In any case, flying squirrels themselves are a documented fact.”

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

Araki posits that it’s fear holding people back; not just the fear of rejection, but a broader fear of the unknown.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 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

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

While she never escapes the gravitational pull of her own gendered perspective, Ms. Saxbe nonetheless posits fresh approaches on how men parent and where they might improve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

“Her Private Hell” 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, with just as much chilling impact.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 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

“Die Zauberflöte,” a collaboration between director Clément Cogitore and conductor Leonardo García-Alarcón, posited an elaborate allegory about the end of childhood and the collapse of post-World War II optimism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Myriad other reasons have been posited, such as increased use of contraception, more female education, and growing housing or childcare costs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

The gene, Schrödinger posited, had to be made of a peculiar kind of chemical; it had to be a molecule of contradictions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Maybe a quote like that might lend itself to industry power players positing that Kilmer was difficult.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025

From being able to count all the known planets on two hands to cataloging thousands to positing the existence of trillions, we’ve made incredible progress in our census of worlds in the past 30 years.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023

“You, a self-professed cynic, are positing that the squirrel is a superhero.”

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