How to Use posit in a Sentence

posit

verb
  • Coogler’s film posits whether one’s love for music can be a sin.
    — Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 5 May 2025
  • This is not to posit some Platonic form.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • This is not to posit some Platonic form.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Ohtani has posited that some of his woes are because of his posture at the plate.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • Most locals posit that their living room view can feature quite the menagerie.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The answer, the researchers posit, is that the rocks had been changed by the impact.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2014
  • The great man’s love and his life are things apart, it is posited, and must not be mixed and mingled.
    — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • The ancient Greeks posited this knob of tissue might be the seat of the soul.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2026
  • Casey posits that the roots of humanity's aversion run, well, deep.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • For All Mankind posits a world in which the Soviets beat us to it.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 3 June 2019
  • Others have posited that the guild is simply trying to avoid a fraught subject.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The episode posits that Paul helped stage his own kidnapping to collect a ransom and pay off the debt.
    — Julie Miller, HWD, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Hans believes core bonds are well posited to deliver strong returns.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • First, Karas posited, the Barnetts had the girl's age changed legally.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Based on the site’s rocks, which do not preserve ripples or other signs of waves, the team posits that this area was once the ocean floor.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 May 2026
  • Timeless music, Garcia might have posited, has no end.
    — Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The team posits that this network helps the rays’ tails pinpoint stimuli in the surrounding water.
    — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The researchers also posit that a similar process could have been active on Mars in the past, too.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
  • Yet, the script posits, did that erase the value people had given it over the years, diminish the beauty of it?
    — Monica Kim, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2018
  • The reason it was not loaded or fired, researchers posit, is because the Spanish didn't have time.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • That's what fans on the Internet are positing, at least—but take a look at the video for yourself, below.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 6 June 2019
  • Perhaps, Cryer posited, their anonymity was a strength.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The writer Rachel Cusk posits that mothers lose autonomy of the mind.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • There is a lot of rigmarole there that is conveniently hidden when positing this as a common sense thing.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Their analysis also posits that most of the billionaires are likely to stick around in the long run because the tax is a one-time hit.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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