postulate
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That being said, they postulate that the raise stemmed in part from a supply-demand imbalance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Researchers postulate that repeated exposure of this sort allowed the virus to push into the cells — a brute force entry more than a lock-picking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
We don't know, but the postquantum theory doesn't require the measurement postulate, because the classicality of spacetime infects quantum systems and causes them to localise.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
Conversely, however, you could postulate that there are other infinities between the cardinality of the natural and real numbers—and encounter no problems either.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023
Coolly she pointed out that not a shred of evidence permitted Linus, or anyone else, to postulate a helical structure for DNA.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, they found that one of the postulates used in the 2021 analysis was more restrictive than necessary.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
In the Science Fiction Novella “Nightfall”, Isaac Asimov postulates how a civilization would face a solar eclipse in a multiple star solar system that only experienced night once every two thousand years.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024
There’s also string theory, which describes the universe as made of almost unimaginably small vibrating strings and, in current versions, postulates the existence of at least 10 dimensions.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2023
I started to think a lot about infinity, and what it was like there, and how all the postulates and theorems and principles were true across all the universe.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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One tech expert postulated that Hugging Face was an example of an AI that got scared because it couldn’t complete its task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The research team postulated that adding a medication that blocks prostaglandin synthesis may have an additional complementary effect in achieving contraception.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023
One leading candidate traces back to a possibility postulated by Albert Einstein in 1917 to as a mathematical “fix” to his general theory of relativity.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023
Just as a thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger postulated that a cat could be in a quantum state that is both dead and alive, a qubit can be both 1 and 0 simultaneously.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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The research is anchored in a theory postulating that emotions are generated when human cognition evaluates events from various perspectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
“I love Mario, and I don’t want to have a thing with him,” he said, before postulating that he and Paciorek did possibly coin the baseball expression “emergency swing.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023
Even postulating today’s miserable 2 percent growth, and ignoring compounding, GDP in 2100 would be 160 percent larger than today.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
You wouldn’t think this because what needs explaining is why this monkey—the only one you’ve actually observed—is writing English, and postulating other monkeys doesn’t explain what this monkey is doing.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2021
Flamsteed was one of the first people to suggest that the phenomenon was really a single object, postulating that it had been repelled from the Sun by some sort of magnetic effect.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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