Example Sentences

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It has been so closely scrutinized that film workers have posited their own theories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Some have posited that a decline in friendships is leading to a decline in civic engagement.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2023

Some critics have posited that the issue has been overblown, and that complex gangs are not responsible for large numbers of retail losses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Academics have posited that a mounting social narcissism may intersect with travel; a pursuit traditionally driven by wanderlust now seems beholden to an indifferent self-absorption.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Add five days or so for natural procrastination and devilment, and we have seventy days interval, which we have posited as the ideal orbit for our tonsorial ecstasies.

From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher