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The research team postulated that adding a medication that blocks prostaglandin synthesis may have an additional complementary effect in achieving contraception.

From Science Daily • Oct. 20, 2023

Just as a thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger postulated that a cat could be in a quantum state that is both dead and alive, a qubit can be both 1 and 0 simultaneously.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023

So Gasca and a wide array of City Section coaches have postulated something needed to change with seedings.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

Though first predicted by Einstein in 1916, scientists of that era had little hope of measuring the tiny changes in distance postulated by the theory of gravitational waves.

From Salon • May 24, 2023

All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas