posited
ˈpä-zə-təd 
ˈpäz-təd
; positing
ˈpä-zə-tiŋ
ˈpäz-tiŋ
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Russini posited that those in the Raiders building thought the team would be able to land an elite head coaching candidate like Ben Johnson or Mike Vrabel.
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Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
Riding along on those grain stores, the researchers posit, were fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the plague.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2025
Her breakout hit, Tender Is the Flesh, posited a world in which cannibalism has become industrialized and meat is quite literally murder.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
The authors of the 2014 study posited that less aggressive, more docile individuals fare better around people, leading to a natural selection for tameness.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
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Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
Riding along on those grain stores, the researchers posit, were fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the plague.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2025
Her breakout hit, Tender Is the Flesh, posited a world in which cannibalism has become industrialized and meat is quite literally murder.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
The authors of the 2014 study posited that less aggressive, more docile individuals fare better around people, leading to a natural selection for tameness.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Posit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/posit. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
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