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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

But, given that Grande and NBCUniversal campaigned just as fiercely, I’m once again inclined to posit that the sequel’s dreadful reputation soured Grande’s chances.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

Some are just ridiculous, as when advocates posit that the best way to evaluate an event’s likelihood is to see what gamblers with “skin in the game” are thinking about it.

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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

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

“Citizen Kane” posited that all media moguls are driven by a lust for power that stems from an irreparable brokenness.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Tewari posited that one of the catalysts needed “in order for the Regeneron story to turn around” was stability in Regeneron’s U.S.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

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 ● Feb. 28, 2026

To get around the problems of fossil distributions, they posited ancient "land bridges" wherever they were needed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

“I’m pretty sure it says 14 karats on the inside,” Friedman said back on the street in the waning evening sunlight, positing that the $9 trinket was probably a white gold engagement band.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

“Society of the Snow” resists positing the consumption of the survivors’ dead friends as a gruesome act.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

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

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