postulate
verb (used with object)
to ask, demand, or claim.
postulated
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past participleof postulate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof postulate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
postulateverb (used with object)to ask, demand, or claim.
Example Sentences
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One tech expert postulated that Hugging Face was an example of an AI that got scared because it couldn’t complete its task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
By doing so, they have corroborated an extremely interesting phenomenon that Nobel Prize laureate Frank Wilczek postulated around ten years ago and which had already found its way into science fiction movies.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
One leading candidate traces back to a possibility postulated by Albert Einstein in 1917 to as a mathematical “fix” to his general theory of relativity.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 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
Maize originated, litis postulated, in a strange, wholesale mutation of teosinte, to which Indians added and subtracted features through intensive breeding.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
