postulation

Example Sentences

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“But the postulation by the Jesuits wanted to bypass it.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024

These days, an interview with Mastraieni is just as likely to discuss comedy theory as it is political postulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2021

Again, what you need explaining is why Joey is typing English, and the postulation of other monkeys doesn’t explain this.

From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2021

It’s figures like these that encourage the postulation of doomsday scenarios, familiar from science fiction, in which humanity risks extinction.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2018

Both of them were intent on forcing the theologians into the daylight, and grudged them any aid they might expect from Kant’s postulation of God and immortality to crown the edifice of ethics.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various