posit
verb (used with object)
to place, put, or set.
has posited
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present perfectof posit (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“Quentin Tarantino has posited that directors and actors are given 10-year periods when what you do touches the zeitgeist,” Payne says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
“No one has posited one conceivable theory on how this thing could have gone off. That was not going to happen inside of a bag,” McDonald said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Their disappearance coincided with the emergence of leaner hunters, Barkai has posited, and he argues it would have forced people to turn to leaner meals, such as fallow deer.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2017
Ms. Gionfriddo has posited this sort of static structure as a viable and possibly female dramaturgy.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2017
The coalition of the Loire mines has posited the social question in terms which permit no more evasion.
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
