as in assumption
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 to say
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 postulate
Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
That respect is a core postulate of most Americans’ vision of how their government should function and of their expectation that justices try in good faith to meet that standard.
—Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Jan. 2025
Some of the nuttiest conjecture postulates that the Chinese have taken over o1 or perhaps are secretly running OpenAI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Noun
And therefore, the parallel postulate’s not provable from the other axioms.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
That respect is a core postulate of most Americans’ vision of how their government should function and of their expectation that justices try in good faith to meet that standard.
—Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
Verb
Eugenicist pseudo-scientific race theories postulated that non-white/Nordic/Aryan immigrants were a threat to the gene pool and therefore the future.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Jan. 2025
Some of the nuttiest conjecture postulates that the Chinese have taken over o1 or perhaps are secretly running OpenAI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for postulate
Noun
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However, many professionals in the field are beginning to acknowledge that these requirements stem from outdated assumptions.—
Jesse Rhoades,
The Conversation,
11 Mar. 2025
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Science took longer to wade into the field, held back by the assumption that aging was inevitable.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Doherty says Cooper — who makes his acting debut in the series — impressed her.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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There is no reason to say that the current challenges render AI’s implementation impossible.—
William Tarr,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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This is a theory that has been championed by Polish theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski of the University of New Haven.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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The theory is soon put to rest, though, when Rivera Garza starts receiving strange messages from the killer, signed with the names of different female artists.—
Nicolás Medina Mora,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Begin the transition one to two months before the new baby's due date, assuming that your toddler is at least 18 months old, says Dr. Widome.—
Laura Broadwell,
Parents,
18 Mar. 2025
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Not only did these refugiums give life a chance to survive the mass extinction event, which lasted 200,000 years, but they are now thought to have been crucial to rebuilding ecosystems in much less time than was previously assumed.—
Elizabeth Rayne,
Ars Technica,
18 Mar. 2025
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The causes of both events had been long debated, however one hypothesis has linked them to depletions in the Earth's protective ozone layer, such as might be caused by a supernova going off in local space.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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His death follows that of the South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, who was reportedly found dead at her home by a friend and presumed to have died by suicide.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
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The statement also employed a common far-right misrepresentation of Hitler, who in fact privatized much of the government, outlawed labor unions and ordered the killing of hundreds of thousands of people presumed to be socialists and communists.—
Carlo Angerer,
NBC News,
9 Mar. 2025
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Turk-Browne believes there are multiple possible explanations, including the theory that those recollections simply never make it to the long-term storage regions of the brain.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
21 Mar. 2025
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About six people, believed to be teenagers, fled the house and ran into the nearby Edenwald Houses, according to police sources.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
21 Mar. 2025
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Instead, the team hypothesized a stellar explosion may have been a potential factor in the Late Devonian extinction event 372 million years ago and one at the end of the Late Ordovician 445 million years ago.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
20 Mar. 2025
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While research in that realm is in its infancy, some experts hypothesize that environmental factors influenced by climate change could be culpable in the uptick in kidney stone cases among children.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Postulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postulate. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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