How to Use posit in a Sentence

posit

verb

• Dadush even posits identity harm as a kind of defamation.
  — Marc Bain, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2019
• The four-hundred-and-thirty-four-page document posits that major mistakes were made.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2019
• The same cult of authenticity which decrees that good tacos only come from trucks posits that the best Chinese food is found in humble settings.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• That’s why, experts posit, Delhi has drawn a clear redline in local politics: No more separatism.
  — Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2024
• Ward posits that Sony's recent successes could have swayed the company's decision to skip E3.
  — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2020
• Just a few hundred years ago philosophers posited that birds buried themselves in swamps, flew to the moon, or fully transformed into other animals during the cold months.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
• An old saying posits that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
• Researchers also predicted an increase in drowning deaths, positing that the hotter the temperature, the more likely people are to go swimming.
  — Shelby Lin Erdman, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
• Leahy and Weiss both posited that Glossier You, and its ensuing offshoots, mirror the brand’s most resonant aspects with consumers.
  — James Manso, WWD, 25 Sep. 2024
• One explanation for the relative scarcity of production facilities posits that factories were built outside of towns and cities.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2019
• Instead of being composed fully of granitic rock, researchers reanalyzed old Magellan data and posited that these landforms could be made of basaltic lava.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The purpose of the Nazca people’s massive illustrations, which are seemingly only appreciable from a bird’s-eye view, remains a mystery, though some historians posit that the civilization created the illustrations with a spiritual motive.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024