postulated
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Because they found the melittin gene only in bees, the researchers also invalidated the hypothesis that it belongs to a group of venom genes postulated for stinging insects called aculeatoxins.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2023
It postulated that grandiose traits such as arrogance and assertiveness conceal feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem.
From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 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
So Gasca and a wide array of City Section coaches have postulated something needed to change with seedings.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023
Harold Urey, a Berkeley chemistry PhD working at Columbia, had set out to identify a heavy isotope of hydrogen that had been postulated by Raymond Birge, among others.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
