How to Use postulate in a Sentence

postulate

1 of 2 verb
Definition of postulatenext
Synonyms for postulatenext
  • Scientists have postulated the existence of water on the planet.
  • That’s something one of Darwin’s kids postulated in the 1800s and people laughed at him.
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The idea that senescent cells contribute to aging was first postulated in the 1960s.
    — Elmo Keep, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • The idea that senescent cells contribute to aging was first postulated in the 1960s.
    — Elmo Keep, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • Some have even postulated that Taylor Swift wrote the novel, though Vaughn has since shut down that rumor.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • As early as 300 B.C., Epicurus postulated that there must be many worlds like ours among the stars.
    — Matt Mountain, The Atlantic, 13 June 2017
  • Many people have postulated that the value of fish comes largely from omega-3 fats, which play many important roles in brain health.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Although cooler than the rest of the sun’s surface, some scientists postulate that sunspots have an overall warming effect on the sun.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Woodward went on to postulate about what would have happened if a guest in the front row at Trump’s Sunday rally in Nevada, the first indoor rally for the campaign in months, would have sneezed.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Some scholars postulate that the severe injury reminded him of his time in World War I, when his first concussion took place.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
  • That finding led the researchers to postulate that the difference arose before birth and reflected hormone levels in the womb.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 6 June 2019
  • Fans love to postulate and theorize and try to connect the dots between a show or a movie and a single issue of a comic that was published half a century ago.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Observers also postulate that hitters may have changed their approaches at the plate to hit more fly balls and take advantage of the fact that fly balls are now more likely to be home runs.
    — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 24 May 2018
  • That dating rules out some of the names postulated as being the author, like Bacon, Da Vinci and Voynich himself.
    — Jane Bracher, CNN, 15 June 2018
  • In fact, some experts postulate that wide pelvises could be even more efficient than narrow ones.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2022
  • The training is based on a premise that the service postulated following the Vietnam War: In combat, a pilot's first 10 missions are the deadliest.
    — Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2020
  • Some historians have postulated that the monster could have been a Mediterranean monk seal.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Experts postulate that the housing bubble burst in tandem with economic hardships of the Great Recession pushed many people of home-buying age to the cities.
    — al, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Rather, the authors postulated, much of the decrease was due to young men carving out more time for one technology in particular: video games.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Addressing Indy's 'heart issue' Politicians and analysts will sometimes postulate about the root causes of violence and what changes can be made to stop it, the Rev. Williams said.
    — Robert Scheer, Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2019
  • So Gasca and a wide array of City Section coaches have postulated something needed to change with seedings.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • Researchers postulate that given the way the octopus is letting the tentacles drag behind it, the animal may be wielding the stinging cells for defense or to catch more prey.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
  • There's also a Reddit thread where people postulated whether Draper's life was inspired by Tate's.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The next step will be that machines will postulate such models on their own and will verify and refine them based on empirical evidence.
    — Kevin Hartnett, The Atlantic, 19 May 2018
  • Mr. Green has long postulated that the future of transportation will be less focused on private car ownership.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 6 June 2017
  • The Japanese scientists postulated that pinks, which have exploded in numbers since the early 1990s, had gobbled up many of the copepods.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
  • In 1926, the economist George Taylor postulated that women’s skirts get shorter as the economy strengthens and drop as the market declines.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Finance experts and tabloids postulate that the location of the former is related to the tax-avoidance benefits offered by the 2003 New Jersey Cemetery Act.
    — Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But will that keep them from postulating that Betty's mom Alice Cooper is actually a witch?
    — Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Such a theory might explain the observed discrepancies in the motions of celestial objects without the need to postulate the existence of dark matter in the first place.
    — Dan Falk /, NBC News, 7 May 2018
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postulate

2 of 2 noun
  • Einstein's theory of relativity was deduced from two postulates.
  • But this isn’t necessarily so, and it’s the fifth postulate’s fault.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • If Euclid’s fifth postulate were true, then any two lines of longitude could never intersect.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • At the heart of this particular puzzle lies a conflict between three fundamental postulates beloved by many physicists.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
  • Starting from these two postulates, Einstein showed that space and time are intertwined in ways that scientists had never previously realized.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Belief in this postulate is evident at universities across the country, with many adopting protocols to ensure a safe, on-campus experience this fall.
    — Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Einstein's theory of relativity was deduced from two postulates.
  • But this isn’t necessarily so, and it’s the fifth postulate’s fault.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • If Euclid’s fifth postulate were true, then any two lines of longitude could never intersect.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • At the heart of this particular puzzle lies a conflict between three fundamental postulates beloved by many physicists.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
  • Starting from these two postulates, Einstein showed that space and time are intertwined in ways that scientists had never previously realized.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Belief in this postulate is evident at universities across the country, with many adopting protocols to ensure a safe, on-campus experience this fall.
    — Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 20 May 2021

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