How to Use posit in a Sentence

posit

verb
  • For All Mankind posits a world in which the Soviets beat us to it.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 3 June 2019
  • This is an album that posits its lack of ideas as big ideas.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The myth, in this case, is the culture of debt, which Mr. Akhtar posits is one in which we are still immersed.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • To posit that there is a risk arising from this is absurd.
    — Enrique Dans, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • 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
  • The great man’s love and his life are things apart, it is posited, and must not be mixed and mingled.
    — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • First, Karas posited, the Barnetts had the girl's age changed legally.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The book posits that there are two types of games: finite and infinite.
    — Emily Heller, Vox, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The episode posits that Paul helped stage his own kidnapping to collect a ransom and pay off the debt.
    — Julie Miller, HWD, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Most locals posit that their living room view can feature quite the menagerie.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Both posit that certain types of crime have risen since Boudin took the helm of the DA’s office just over a year ago, and his policies are to blame.
    — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Yet, the script posits, did that erase the value people had given it over the years, diminish the beauty of it?
    — Monica Kim, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2018
  • 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 the Obama years, the policies that flowed from this approach gave us 2% growth, which was posited as the new normal.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Fans, the stars themselves, and even the Mythbusters team have all posited ways in which Jack could have survived in the years since the film's release in 1997.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • That theory posits that Luke sensed danger not in Kylo but in Rey, and that Luke tried to kill her that night in the tent.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Robbie didn’t ever quite crack the States, Billboard UK posits.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Dadush even posits identity harm as a kind of defamation.
    — Marc Bain, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Some have posited that the tensions at Giant Rock may be fueled, in part, by the same kind of backlash.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • That's what fans on the Internet are positing, at least—but take a look at the video for yourself, below.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 6 June 2019
  • 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
  • One theory posited that maybe the Night King was going to bring the ancestors back to life and use them against those in the crypts.
    — Glamour, 27 Apr. 2019
  • The only way these individuals could have survived, researchers posit, is if their peers took care of them.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Some have posited that extreme one-day gains are associated with bear markets rather than a positive stock outlook.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025

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