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For example, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman has postulated the existence of a new force that counteracts the universal drift toward disorder decreed by the second law of thermodynamics.

From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2013

It has postulated a propitiatory sacrifice, a vicarious atonement, a completed transaction, something which was laid up for all and waiting to be availed of by some.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

A short summary may here be given of the grounds on which the present writer has postulated a diversity of authorship.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various