posited
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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
He posited that opera’s magic lies in its inherent ambiguity and its true power is rebirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
In fact, the cyclotron had been working perfectly well with beams far more defocused by imperfections in the magnetic field—those bothersome irregularities combated by shimming—than they would be by the relativistic effects that Bethe posited.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
