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Indeed, the current percentage is likely to rise further if the roughly $1 trillion in AI-related capex putatively committed through 2026-27 by the so-called hyperscalers comes to pass, he adds.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026

It would be hard to imagine two violin soloists more putatively dissimilar than Midori and Mr. Aavik.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

This proposal generated cavils in the chattering classes that it would drive home prices up to absorb the $25,000 grant, putatively keeping homes out of the reach of the beneficiaries.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

Meanwhile, scuba diving vessel behavior in the lobster scenario, in which vessels were putatively engaged largely in recreational lobster fishing, showed quite different patterns.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann