Sample Sentences forpostulate (auto-selected)
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To 'postulate' something is to assume something that cannot be proved.† (source)
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Postulate means —† (source)
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But neither my grandmother nor I dared to postulate this theory to my mother, and Dan Needham was clearly untroubled by the ongoing singing lessons, and the ongoing one night away; or else Dan possessed some reassuring piece of knowledge that remained a secret from my grandmother and me.† (source)
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As we covered each postulate and theorem, it soon became clear that Dorothy actually understood their derivations better than I did.† (source)
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God is a postulate.† (source)
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"Or the wind died down a little," Beck postulated.† (source)
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"It's rather far-fetched," Stone said, "to postulate debris from some extragalactic source other than—"† (source)
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tzer and Weinstein had postulated a "fusion tunneler" that would explain the perfectly smooth walls and lack of tailings, but their theory did not explain where the Builders or their machines had come from or why they had devoted centuries to such an apparently aimless engineering task.† (source)
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But you've got to stick to one set of postulates.† (source)
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It came to him that he was surrounded by a way of life that could only be understood by postulating an ecology of ideas and values.† (source)
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And this: the fact that even an undefined and never-spoken engagement survived, speaking well for the postulation that they did love one another, since during that two days mere romance would have perished, died of sheer saccharinity and opportunity.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship.† (source)
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As he continued to grow sicker and sicker even at low altitude, the doctors postulated that his illness was perhaps not simple HAPE but rather HAPE complicated by tuberculosis or some other preexisting Pulmonary condition.† (source)
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But to arrive at these laws, resulting from the sum of all those human wills, man's mind postulates arbitrary and disconnected units.† (source)
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Postulating then some militant faction proclaiming the great moment finally at hand.† (source)
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I can see him corrupting Henry gradually into the purlieus of elegance, with no foreword, no warning, the postulation to come after the fact, exposing Henry slowly to the surface aspect—the architecture a little curious, a little femininely flamboyant and therefore to Henry opulent, sensuous, sinful;† (source)
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