putative
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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
This effort, which has bipartisan support, is important because disability judges sometimes have approved or disapproved disability benefits based on the putative availability of old jobs that no longer truly exist.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 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
The problem with Hamilton’s distinction, however, was that the putative barrier between personal and political criticism, or private and public behavior, kept getting overwhelmed by real choices.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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