as in assumed
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof
postulates that all people are born with certain rights that can never be taken away from them
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Recent Examples of postulated
On one hand, pundits have postulated about an inflationary effect as businesses pass on the higher costs to consumers.
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Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In it, the scientists postulated an increased risk of death in people who fasted intermittently.
—Frederik Jötten, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
Apple—which topped the World’s Best Companies list in 2024—is notably absent this year due to a decline in revenue from 2022 to 2024, which many Wall Street analysts have postulated could be due to the company falling behind on AI.
—Charlotte Hu, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In it, the scientists postulated an increased risk of death in people who fasted intermittently.
—Frederik Jötten, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
Apple—which topped the World’s Best Companies list in 2024—is notably absent this year due to a decline in revenue from 2022 to 2024, which many Wall Street analysts have postulated could be due to the company falling behind on AI.
—Charlotte Hu, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postulated
Verb
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The bride chose a buffet-style dinner for her nuptials, and assumed there would be plenty of food to go around.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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Interestingly, what many Countdown viewers surely assumed to be a season-long threat — the aforementioned Volchek and his plan to explode multiple bombs at an outdoor Los Angeles galleria — was resolved early in Episode 10 of 13.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
10 Oct. 2025
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At the time, authorities said several companies operated on the Accurate Energetic Systems property, but the blast happened in an area operated by Rio Ammunition.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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The police have said there are no suspicious circumstances.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Parents are presumed to love their children and have their best interest at heart.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Lachman Fire was quickly contained but appears to have rekindled after it was presumed to be extinguished – leading to the Palisades fire amidst crushing heat and hurricane level Santa Ana winds on January 7.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The percentage tells the public how much of the fire perimeter is believed to not go beyond the control lines.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Under the agreement, accepted by both parties this week, Hamas will return all living hostages—believed to be around 20—in exchange for roughly 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and about 1,700 detainees from Gaza.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Oct. 2025
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Scientists have also hypothesized that a large portion of the world’s water comes from asteroids, and that the building blocks of life came to Earth on space rocks.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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Zare and his colleagues hypothesized that this process might have generated some of the chemical building blocks for life on Earth.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Postulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postulated. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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