postulate
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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
The physicists postulate that the color-charged black holes could have affected the balance of fusing nuclei, in a way that astronomers might someday detect with future measurements.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
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
Those who postulate equivalency — that is, a lifetime appointment, absent impeachment — are unmoved.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2023
Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect?
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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