postulating

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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