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postulate

verb as in suppose, figure

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Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that microbes can cause illness.

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Researchers postulate that repeated exposure of this sort allowed the virus to push into the cells — a brute force entry more than a lock-picking.

The physicists postulate that the color-charged black holes could have affected the balance of fusing nuclei, in a way that astronomers might someday detect with future measurements.

It has since been postulated that so-called cognitive reserve might account for this differential protective effect in individuals.

The research is anchored in a theory postulating that emotions are generated when human cognition evaluates events from various perspectives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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