putative
adjective
putatively
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a word derived from
putative.
Example Sentences
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U.S. user data would putatively be housed on U.S. servers, but who can trust this?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
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
Wall Street was already making too much money using CDOs to turn crappy triple-B-rated subprime bonds into putatively riskless triple-A ones to simply stop doing it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
