How to Use posit in a Sentence

posit

verb
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  • The authors posit that the boats could have reached the sea by floating about 23 miles down the River Arone.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Is the world too much with us, late and soon, as William Wordsworth posited in verse more than 200 years ago?
    — David Holahan, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • First, Karas posited, the Barnetts had the girl's age changed legally.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • One is to posit that democracy is in part about rights: who has them and to what extent.
    — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • But researchers in the UK and Uganda posit that coffee farms can adapt in a number of ways.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Most locals posit that their living room view can feature quite the menagerie.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The researchers also posit that a similar process could have been active on Mars in the past, too.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
  • In it, authors Darryl Granger and others posit that the skull date back to between 3.4 to 3.6 million years.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 July 2022
  • And 48% of managers posited that AI tools were a threat to their salaries and will lead to wage declines throughout the workforce this year.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Casey posits that the roots of humanity's aversion run, well, deep.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • Some posit the nerveless current to be less than parklike.
    — Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Others have posited that the guild is simply trying to avoid a fraught subject.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the album posits that music, and the emotional process of making it, might be a form of freedom in itself.
    — Michelle Hyun Kim, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Since then, law enforcement has posited that a band of thieves ran off with the toilet in at least two getaway cars.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Help Wanted posits questions to the landscape at large: What does the working-class novel look like in the 21st century?
    — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The movement posits that America is a Christian nation and that the founders intended it as such.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Leaving their daughter and risking their lives to protect others isn’t an easy job, the movie posits, but someone’s gotta do it.
    — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The group served, Rooks posits, as a critique of the idea that there could be only one great Black woman writer in a generation.
    — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Schultz, however, posits that fame can be a bit of an addiction in itself.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2024
  • But Out There Screaming embraces the wishful mood that is driving this talk of a new era, and its stories posit what Black horror is and could be.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The news report posits that the act has fallen short of its initial promise to reduce homelessness.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Experts posit that longer-term illness is here to stay and more people are likely to be affected in the future.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Bacow posits that learning to ask for help and delegate tasks are essential life skills—and this is the perfect time to hone them.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
  • That one’s believable, given that some strains of Buddhism posit that there's a part of us that is distinct from our bodies.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The researchers posit that an 83rd moon became unstable, and its orbit swung too close to Saturn.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • While some theories were posited in jest, others appeared to be shared in earnest.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The network effect posits that the value of a product or service depends on the number of people using it.
    — Gil Press, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Yet another model posits that the great weight of the ice sheets pushed fresh water deep into the subsurface and below caps.
    — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • Do all masterpieces look the same, in the way that Tolstoy once posited all happy families do?
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In this new paper, though, scientists posit that this symmetry doesn’t just pertain to the actions that take place in the universe.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Mar. 2022

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