putative
adjective
putatively
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a word derived from
putative.
Example Sentences
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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
To surrender such decisions to some putatively wiser entity is, in some essential sense, to surrender our humanness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 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
