posited

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It has been so closely scrutinized that film workers have posited their own theories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 13, 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

He posited that we shouldn’t be afraid to disagree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 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