postulated

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Postulated in 1924 by French physicist Louis de Broglie, this idea was verified for electrons a few years later by US physicists Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer.

From Nature • Aug. 6, 2018

Postulated an official spokesman for the German Foreign Office, "They had no right to judge Germany, no right!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Postulated Il Duce: "We must intensify by propaganda the practical, intelligent production of rice, which is eminently suitable as a national food."

From Time Magazine Archive

Postulated by Einstein's general theory of relativity, these waves are thought to be the carrier of the gravitational force, just as the photon, or light particle, is the transmitter of the electromagnetic force.

From Time Magazine Archive

Postulated relationships of species of the genus Lasiurus.

From North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus,' And a List of the Named Kinds Of the Genus Lasiurus Gray by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)