as in assumptions
something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning
one of the postulates that the true agnostic rejects is the assumption that it is even possible for us to know whether God exists
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as in assumes
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 postulates
Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.
—Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
One of the theories postulates that the ribbon represents a group of particles that somehow leaked from the heliosphere and bounced around interstellar space before returning to the Solar System.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postulates
Noun
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However, recent reexaminations of medieval artwork are complicating these assumptions.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
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More practical encryption schemes avoided the need for in-person meetings but relied on unproven assumptions about the difficulty of certain math problems.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Mar. 2026
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Receiving the credit also assumes residency, which can be tricky, warns Nathan Hagerman, partner at Taft law firm.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
22 Mar. 2026
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This assumes the ability to accelerate exports to more than 7 million barrels a day in the second half of the year, alongside higher payments from Aramco due to elevated crude prices.—
Alaa Shahine Salha,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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All three 2025 Nobel Prize winners in medicine used mice to help develop breakthrough theories about the immune system that led to new cancer treatments and advances in organ transplants.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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Many have asked similar questions over the years, and wild theories abound.—
Li Goldstein,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
Verb
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That’s because fast running will push your fitness up a notch in a way slow running simply won’t, Hamilton says.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
20 Mar. 2026
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One thing Sandlin says SMU tries to ascertain about a player is their play character.—
Joseph Hoyt,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Other active hypotheses that remain in play include that Gracey could have been drugged, taken drugs himself or ingested a large enough amount of alcohol to disorient himself.—
Michael Ruiz , Solly Boussidan,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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The company, which just raised $14 million in seed funding from General Catalyst, Toyota Ventures, and Perplexity Fund, is among a growing number of self-driving labs that are drawing investor attention for their ability to use technologies that reason on new hypotheses.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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The message of terrorism speaks to anyone who believes that violence is a natural response to political differences, and who presumes that they may not be seen or heard otherwise.—
Juliette Kayyem,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2026
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The early investigation presumes that the victim had been a pedestrian.—
Patrick Damp,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, JPMorgan believes equities look more vulnerable than bonds from a positioning perspective both in developed and emerging markets.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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The sheriff's office believes that the same arsonist started a fire on Sunday near the town of Vernon.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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The team hypothesizes that the bats anchored themselves to landmarks in their environment, such as the coastline, the experimenters’ tents, and their perches.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Jan. 2026
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If flooding corn was theoretically outlawed, Cohen hypothesizes that mallards would probably move more frequently and fly farther distances locally.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Postulates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postulates. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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