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postulate

[pos-chuh-leyt, pos-chuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt, ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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That being said, they postulate that the raise stemmed in part from a supply-demand imbalance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

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

"We could postulate that about 80 percent of humans stand up in a similar way. Then we designed a controller around that trajectory."

From Science Daily May 15, 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

The fundamental postulate of the theory of relativity, as it was called, was that the laws of science should be the same for all freely moving observers, no matter what their speed.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

This idea postulates that brain rhythms organize the otherwise massive number of possible outcomes that could result from, say, 1,000 neurons engaging in independent spiking activity.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2024

In the Science Fiction Novella “Nightfall”, Isaac Asimov postulates how a civilization would face a solar eclipse in a multiple star solar system that only experienced night once every two thousand years.

From Salon Apr. 11, 2024

There’s also string theory, which describes the universe as made of almost unimaginably small vibrating strings and, in current versions, postulates the existence of at least 10 dimensions.

From Scientific American Aug. 19, 2023

The whole collection of different formulations could be regarded as a complete unified theory, though one that could not be expressed in terms of a single set of postulates.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Self-replication has been postulated to be central to the emergence of life, but the vast majority of its known manifestations require complex macromolecules like enzymes.

From Science Daily Jan. 24, 2024

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

"Disinformation runs rampant on online forums because there's no one checking," Simon postulated.

From Salon Jan. 30, 2023

Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

By postulating a random collapse, GRW theory destroys the possibility of knowing what led up to the collapsed state—which, by most accounts, means information about the system prior to its transformation becomes irrecoverably lost.

From Scientific American May 22, 2023

And Peter Higgs’ theory postulating the so-called “God particle” named the Higgs boson didn’t win its Nobel until the actual particle was discovered by a massive European particle collider.

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2018

The retinex theory of color vision explains color constancy by postulating the existence of three retinexes or image systems, associated with the three types of cones that are compared to obtain sophisticated information.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

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




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