postulated

verb

Definition of postulatednext
past tense of postulate
as in assumed
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof postulates that all people are born with certain rights that can never be taken away from them

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  1. assumed
  2. presumed
  3. believed
  4. hypothesized
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  • Babies with only one umbilical artery are at risk of being born small, but Naomi, her daughter, weighed over 6 pounds, so she was assumed to be fine.
    Nancy Borowick, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Federal judge blocks Kroger merger with Albertsons Who is on the hook for a mortgage that has been assumed by a home buyer?
    Christopher A. Combs, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of assumed
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  • It is presumed most infected dairy workers were exposed to H5N1 via milk spray in the eye or in the nose, not as a result of drinking it.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • When subsequent researchers, over decades, did not make similar findings, it was presumed Koeltz got it wrong.
    Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of presumed
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  • Around 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.
    Samy Magdy and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Lula underwent surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage after the 79-year-old leader complained of headaches that doctors believed to be the result of a fall in a bathroom at his home in October.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of believed
Verb
  • They’re not being killed by random strangers—the threat typically hypothesized by fear-mongers.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024
  • It was founded on what’s now known as the perfect cosmological principle, which hypothesized that the Universe wasn’t just the same, on average, everywhere in space, but also in time.
    Big Think, Big Think, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of hypothesized
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