POSITED Definition & Meaning

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posited

[ poz-i-tid ]

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adjective

claimed or assumed as a fact or principle, especially as a basis for argument or further investigation:
The posited planet, supposed to explain the irregular orbit of Uranus, was later discovered—Neptune.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of posit ( def ).

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of posited¹

posit ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

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Although a more liberal administration may instruct federal employees to interpret “urgent humanitarian reasons” in a more lenient way, the Trump administration could potentially tell employees no such reasons exist, she posited.

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Back in 1994, James Goldsmith had posited that the problem with the free market dream was that it didn't protect the home base.

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Some of Musk's defenders posited that his rather stiff heart-to-crowd gesture was the "socially awkward" wave of an "autistic" man.

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“Is someone going to try to get us in trouble for doing that?” the nurse practitioner based in a restrictive state, who was interviewed in the study, posited.

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Despite this lack of perfect one-to-one mapping between words and objects, mutual exclusivity has still been posited as a strong tendency in children's word learning.

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