Sample Sentences for
posit
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    It's not much of a stretch to posit that such a rash of misfortune dealt a serious blow to Waterman's young psyche.  (source)
    posit = propose
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    In fact, there are some theories that posit that all squirrels are descended from the flying squirrel.  (source)
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    This explanation posits that external observation leads to the collapse of the quantum wave function.  (source)
    posits = proposes as a theory
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    Fache had posited all kinds of explanations tonight to explain Sophie's odd behavior, including that Sophie, as Saunière's sole heir, had persuaded her secret lover Robert Langdon to kill off Saunière for the inheritance money.  (source)
    posited = put forth for consideration
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    Are you positing that the squirrel typed those words?  (source)
    positing = proposing as a theory
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    And let me now posit this: 'dignity' has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits.†  (source)
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    If his face fills out some more, he posits, he won't be so bad looking, really.†  (source)
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    The best guess posited that Holmes had lured a woman into the vault; that the woman was shoeless at the time, perhaps nude; and that Holmes then had closed the airtight door to lock her inside.  (source)
    posited = proposed as a theory
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    But does not the very positing of eternity and infinity imply the logical, mathematical negation of things limited and finite, their relative reduction to zero?†  (source)
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    If you posit substantial character in the individual, that is, if you transfer the essence of things from the universal to the particular, as Thomas and Bonaventura did, being true Aristotelians, you have then removed the world from its unity with the highest idea, it becomes something outside God, and so God becomes transcendent.†  (source)
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    Both of them are tycoons, Yo posits.†  (source)
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    He posited 'Socratic irony' in contrast.†  (source)
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    You, a self-professed cynic, are positing that the squirrel is a superhero.  (source)
    positing = proposing as a theory
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