postulate
verb (used with object)
to ask, demand, or claim.
postulated
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past participleof postulate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof postulate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
postulateverb (used with object)to ask, demand, or claim.
Example Sentences
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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
One leading candidate traces back to a possibility postulated by Albert Einstein in 1917 to as a mathematical “fix” to his general theory of relativity.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023
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
Maize originated, litis postulated, in a strange, wholesale mutation of teosinte, to which Indians added and subtracted features through intensive breeding.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
