How to Use posit in a Sentence

posit

verb
Definition of positnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The researchers also posit that a similar process could have been active on Mars in the past, too.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For instance, it is claimed that Kendi and CRT posit a hierarchy of races, with whites at the bottom of the totem pole.
    — Max B. Sawicky, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The writer Rachel Cusk posits that mothers lose autonomy of the mind.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • On April 9, analyst polled by Refinitiv posited a drop of 8.5% for the year.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Several Twitter users posit that the contraption, which boasts a foot petal and a thin saw, is a jigsaw or fret saw.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
  • 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
  • Hippocrates was guided in his thinking by the theory of humoral medicine, which posited that there are four humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile), which must be balanced for good health.
    — Nina Elkadi, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Miller called the former within 12 electoral votes, and correctly posited that the Democrats would sweep both Senate seats when the polls showed the Republicans significantly ahead.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024

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