How to Use postulate in a Sentence

postulate

1 of 2 verb

• Scientists have postulated the existence of water on the planet.
• In fact, some experts postulate that wide pelvises could be even more efficient than narrow ones.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2022
• Many people have postulated that the value of fish comes largely from omega-3 fats, which play many important roles in brain health.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• Some historians have postulated that the monster could have been a Mediterranean monk seal.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Although cooler than the rest of the sun’s surface, some scientists postulate that sunspots have an overall warming effect on the sun.
  — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
• Some have even postulated that Taylor Swift wrote the novel, though Vaughn has since shut down that rumor.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
• That finding led the researchers to postulate that the difference arose before birth and reflected hormone levels in the womb.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 6 June 2019
• The next step will be that machines will postulate such models on their own and will verify and refine them based on empirical evidence.
  — Kevin Hartnett, The Atlantic, 19 May 2018
• The idea that senescent cells contribute to aging was first postulated in the 1960s.
  — Elmo Keep, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
• The idea that senescent cells contribute to aging was first postulated in the 1960s.
  — Elmo Keep, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• That’s something one of Darwin’s kids postulated in the 1800s and people laughed at him.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Fans love to postulate and theorize and try to connect the dots between a show or a movie and a single issue of a comic that was published half a century ago.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Mar. 2021
• That has led some scientists to postulate that dark matter could be partially or wholly accounted for by primordial black holes.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
• Observers also postulate that hitters may have changed their approaches at the plate to hit more fly balls and take advantage of the fact that fly balls are now more likely to be home runs.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 24 May 2018
• However, the strong growth postulated in the budget is more likely to cause even greater labor shortages than currently exist.
  — Joel Naroff, Philly.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• On one hand, pundits have postulated about an inflationary effect as businesses pass on the higher costs to consumers.
  — Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Apple enthusiasts have postulated that iPhone 8 pre-orders could start three days after the event.
  — Bryan Rolli, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2017
• Some scholars postulate that the severe injury reminded him of his time in World War I, when his first concussion took place.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
• Darwin believed that the existence of order in nature does not require us to postulate a divine Orderer.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
• There's also a Reddit thread where people postulated whether Draper's life was inspired by Tate's.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
• In it, the scientists postulated an increased risk of death in people who fasted intermittently.
  — Frederik Jötten, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
• But will that keep them from postulating that Betty's mom Alice Cooper is actually a witch?
  — Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
• Some have seen a purely strategic purpose in settlement, but others have postulated an intent to use the colony as a springboard for economic exploitation of the area.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
• Researchers postulate that given the way the octopus is letting the tentacles drag behind it, the animal may be wielding the stinging cells for defense or to catch more prey.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
• So Gasca and a wide array of City Section coaches have postulated something needed to change with seedings.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• The lab is testing a theory discussed in recent years that postulates such adaptation to new environments drives the process of speciation.
  — Cristela Guerra, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Homan, meanwhile, postulated that she was being unfairly targeted because of the controversy on the men’s side.
  — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
• Such a theory might explain the observed discrepancies in the motions of celestial objects without the need to postulate the existence of dark matter in the first place.
  — Dan Falk /, NBC News, 7 May 2018
• Experts postulate that the housing bubble burst in tandem with economic hardships of the Great Recession pushed many people of home-buying age to the cities.
  — al, 6 Feb. 2022
• That dating rules out some of the names postulated as being the author, like Bacon, Da Vinci and Voynich himself.
  — Jane Bracher, CNN, 15 June 2018

postulate

2 of 2 noun

• Einstein's theory of relativity was deduced from two postulates.
• The reason, the authors of a new study postulate, has to do with light pollution.
  — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
• Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.
  — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
• If Euclid’s fifth postulate were true, then any two lines of longitude could never intersect.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• At the heart of this particular puzzle lies a conflict between three fundamental postulates beloved by many physicists.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
• Taleb goes a step further, offering a mathematical postulate.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• That respect is a core postulate of most Americans’ vision of how their government should function and of their expectation that justices try in good faith to meet that standard.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• Starting from these two postulates, Einstein showed that space and time are intertwined in ways that scientists had never previously realized.
  — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2018
• Belief in this postulate is evident at universities across the country, with many adopting protocols to ensure a safe, on-campus experience this fall.
  — Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Modern philosophers such as Nick Bostrom postulate that our cosmos is probably a simulation, a virtual reality created by the alien equivalent of a bored teenage hacker.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 June 2022
• That postulate would justify racial quotas or preferences to remedy racial discrimination uncorroborated by credible evidence.
  — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
• Not really Dagmar Bruss, professor and Head of the Quantum Information Theory group at HHU, and her doctoral researcher, Pedro Barrios Hita, conducted a new analysis of the postulates used in the 2021 paper and found one to be too restrictive.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026