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  • "Or the wind died down a little," Beck postulated.†  (source)
  • You perhaps remember that he had to 'assume'or 'postulate' that man has a free will.†  (source)
  • I know I'm not the first to realize it and far from the most famous, and my realization had nothing to do with energy or mass or the speed of light or anything else Einstein might have postulated.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • But you've got to stick to one set of postulates.†  (source)
  • I've got bugs that bite me inside my trousers," Nathaniel says while another homeless man emerges from the tunnel to speculate on the type of spider that has inflicted the damage, postulating that the wound suggests the work of a brown spider.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • If Mr. Vernon's company continues to build the SAPL at its current rate, given its new{libber, Tray and the capability to build mirrors more powerful than the VDA, by the time I would postulate direct conflict between the Earth and Rangora, any Rangora fleet that passes the gate will he shredded.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • But to arrive at these laws, resulting from the sum of all those human wills, man's mind postulates arbitrary and disconnected units.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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