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Swain has posited that every degree increase in global temperature increases the risk of an “ARkStorm Scenario” — a once-in-a-thousand-years megaflood event.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

“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 Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)