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postulate
  1. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
  2. (transitive) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
  3. (transitive) To request, demand or claim for oneself.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “As a result, researchers now postulate that serotonin may have a role in regulating prolactin secretion.”
posit
  1. Assume the existence of; to postulate.
  2. Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
  3. Put (something somewhere) firmly.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The above arguments posit that fewer safeguard and control rules are expected in family-owned organizations.”
postulates
posits
postulated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of postulate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He postulated a possibility that they may not be found and that is the only part of his statement that you're now alighting on.”
      “One potential factor postulated to influence the fate of duplicated genes is germ-line-specific X chromosome inactivation.”
      “Nineteenth-century physicists postulated the existence of an elastic solid, the aether, to account for the propagation of light.”
posited
  1. simple past tense and past participle of posit
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He posited that Durer's work represents a synthesis of naturalism and idealism that offers an example to contemporary artists.”
      “He pondered the increase in indiscriminateness among terrorists, and he posited several possible reasons accounting for this upsurge.”
      “In this respect, they embody the ideal that Matthew Arnold posited as a mix of Hebraic law and Hellenic light.”
postulating
  1. present participle of postulate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I analyze this possibility by postulating that there is another demand curve that I call the latent demand curve.”
      “It was a speech that spoke well of multilateral action, postulating that there can and will be action.”
      “Weber, like Bergson, stopped just short of postulating the existence of the unconscious.”
positing
  1. present participle of posit
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By positing indivisible bodies, the atomists were also thought to be answering Zeno's paradoxes about the impossibility of motion.”
      “All positing of the real, as opposed to the intentional, existence of the world must be bracketed.”
      “By positing insupportable images of the divine, they invite us to judgment.”
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