putative

Example Sentences

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The putative intelligence chief was apparently irrelevant in the administration’s ouster of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Instead, the strategic calculation appears to have been that you can fold some of the groypers back into mainstream conservativism, but only by tiptoeing around the flaws of their putative leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Chiles’ putative concerns are, for a number of reasons, misleading, unreasonable, or some combination thereof.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025

Perhaps the largest events were the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation, a putative victory for democracy and constitutionalism.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

Lawrence’s move into the wood clapboard Rad Lab in 1932 marked an administrative, financial, and intellectual break between the lab and the Berkeley Physics Department, its putative parent.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik