Example sentences for: posit

How can you use “posit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But if you read the fine print stashed in a couple of the piece's crannies, you learn that "next generation" and "hit home" are rather off: the furthest available projections posit that by the year 2017, a whopping 5 percent of all deaths would be subject to the tax.

  • One may posit that a mind used to grappling with the kudzu of econometrics is more than up to the task of dissecting something as relatively straightforward as college rankings.

  • In most cases, they dealt with words and functional elements, creating what are called reconstructions in hypothetical family prototypes called, variously, Proto-Latin, Proto-Greek, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-Iranian, and so forth, the ultimate goal being to posit a single language called Proto-Indo-European.

  • Instead, they posit the appearance of impropriety, warning that Bush's answers "create an appearance at least that he has something to hide" and "leave the implication" that he used hard drugs.

  • While it may be "difficult" to outlast Milosevic, they posit that we can and must do so.


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