postulate
verb (used with object)
to ask, demand, or claim.
had postulated
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past perfectof postulate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Yet soon other scientists had cast doubt on the validity of those measurements, and had postulated the gas—if it was there at all—was from some strange-but-lifeless form of Venusian volcanism.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2021
The first are those for which the late Nobel laureate Richard Feynman had postulated quantum computers as a simulation of the quantum world.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2019
The industry had postulated IT would catch on and lock down cloud computing.
From Forbes ● Mar. 6, 2013
As far back as 1906, two French researchers had postulated the existence of a substance that prompts the production of red blood cells, which carry oxygen to the body’s tissues.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2010
The noise that Penzias and Wilson were hearing was, of course, the noise that Gamow had postulated.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
