I will posit a guess: the person who ate my sandwich was once again Bob.
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Posit
/ˈpɒzɪt/
Synonyms for "posit" (99 found)
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Noun(11 words)
conjectureconjecturingguess based decisionguesseshypothesishypothesizehypothetical modellocateplacepositionpostulates
Adjective(1 words)
nonmoving premise
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Verb(17 words)
postulationpredicatepremisepresumepresumptionpresupposepresuppositionproposepropoundputput forthput forwardseatsetset forthstationsticksubmitsupposesupposition
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Noun(11 words)
predicate wordpredicatespremisepremise the argumentpresumingproposepropositionsayingsetspeculatestatement
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11 entriesbasic posithypothetical positlogical positplausible positposit a claimposit a hypothesisposit a theoryposit evidenceposit the premiseposited premisetheoretical posit
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6 total sentences available.
The well-preserved bones led its early 20th-century excavators to posit that the site marked a burial ground created by a predecessor to early modern humans.
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With their new hardware implementation, which was synthesized in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the Complutense team was able to compare computations done using 32-bit floats and 32-bit posits side by side.
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some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold.
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