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postulated

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past tense of postulate

as in assumed

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof postulates that all people are born with certain rights that can never be taken away from them

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Recent Examples of postulated This isn’t speculation but rather something already postulated by Infantino during the 2026 edition. — Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 30 July 2026 Originally postulated by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers in the early 19th century, the theory suggested that a rocky planet, roughly the size of our Moon, existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 23 July 2026 In 1905, Einstein had postulated that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum and independent of the observer’s motion. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026 Some have seen a purely strategic purpose in settlement, but others have postulated an intent to use the colony as a springboard for economic exploitation of the area. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026 Homan, meanwhile, postulated that she was being unfairly targeted because of the controversy on the men’s side. — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026 Fluorescence microscopy—a biologist’s window into the cell—had hit the diffraction limit of about 200 nanometers (or roughly half the wavelength of visible light), which had been postulated a century earlier by physicist Ernst Abbe. — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2025 Gordon Moore, a chip expert and co-founder of Intel, postulated that the number of transistors on microchips would double every 24 months or so thanks to advances in miniaturization technology. — John Ruwitch, NPR, 4 Dec. 2025 That’s why Nobel Prize-winning chemist Christian Anfinsen postulated in 1972 that DNA alone should fully determine the final structure a protein takes. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025

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The machinery switches on earlier than long assumed, as brain scans of infants reveal.

— Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
For the latter, establish what is known, what is assumed, what still needs to be understood and what requires testing.

— Mustafa Shreet, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

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Over the following two and a half years, the data center will incrementally ramp its load up to a minimum bill demand of 480 megawatts with a maximum contract demand of 600 megawatts, the memo said.

— Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2026
An attorney representing Matthew Mayich’s family said Arizona State University is mishandling the investigation into the hockey player’s collapse and hospitalization and called on members of the coaching staff to be put on administrative leave.

— Nathan Fenno, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026

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Flowers, who has been sidelined from practice in recent days, is believed to be dealing with a minor hamstring injury.

— Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Since antiquity, people have believed that planting a mulberry tree in front of one’s house is unlucky.

— Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

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In his treatise, Ohno hypothesized that all vertebrate genomes contained evidence of an ancient genome duplication event.

— Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026
The study hypothesized that the sickle was added before the body fully decomposed since no joints were detached or displaced, as archaeologists would expect if a grave were to be disturbed after the body became a skeleton.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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