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1 The production’s framing device — which posits female existence as one long, maddening beauty pageant — gives Ms. Lloyd, not Shakespeare, the last word.

2 The powerful version we are shown is posited as one of Ash and Astrid’s several possible fictions.

3 “I imagine General Tso as almost a bearded Mongolian warrior. He’s on a horse, for sure, riding wildly,” another interviewee posits grandly.

4 In his 2010 best-seller, he posited that Lincoln's loved ones — his mother, a sweetheart, his child — fell prey to thirsty bloodsuckers.

5 Each of these moves posits that a personal brand is bigger than a channel's.

6 “At one point, he tried to wave Maher and Harris off with a condemnation of the Iraq war, positing an implicit moral equivalence between an overly idealistic war of liberation and the stoning of apostates.”

7 And from these clues, you can posit new identities for them.

8 A caustic review of her 2006 memoir in The Atlantic posited that Ms. Jong was doomed to “eternal self-imitation” after the success of “Fear of Flying,” and skewered her “stunning self-absorption.”

9 To keep to the text or the question, to distinguish difference rather than posit similarity, to avoid generalisation.

10 On the witness stand, her son posited that she was unhappy about her fading beauty.

11 Ms. Willow posits that the comic’s mix of traditionalist faith and social justice struck a chord with readers.

12 Freud posited a structural theory of the mind.

13 Amis posits that Nabokov’s prose started to lose velocity with the novel “Ada.”

14 That possibility caused fresh concern several years ago when Italian scientists published a paper positing that putting any stress on its already cracked ankles could topple the masterpiece.

15 Kukah eloquently posited that we often "confuse office holders with leaders".

16 Sure, this could just be an opportunity for Tiffany’s to make more money “and pass it off as inclusivity,” as a recent “Daily Show” sketch posited.

17 In a 2008 article in The New York Times, he posited that brining did little more than fill a turkey with tap water, rather than flavor.

18 "Chronology is an illusion, if not a deliberate lie," a character posits in "The Lost Time Accidents," the fourth offering from novelist John Wray.

19 “The Walking Dead” posits a postapocalyptic landscape where both social comity and social conflict are things of the past; the few traces, like the redneck racism of Daryl’s brother, are vestigial.

20 This haunting, beautiful book posits surfing as a way to help drug addicts, in part because the experiences of catching a wave and getting high have much in common.

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2 断定

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