putative
Example Sentences
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“The death of their father was extraordinarily traumatic, as you can imagine. That was compounded by this putative heir all of a sudden showing up and demanding money,” said Joseph Lipchitz, a litigator in Boston.
Each new play is putatively the work of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a troupe of overambitious amateur thespians.
From New York Times
But first and foremost, this is forensic evidence that these putative host animals were present at the market.
From Scientific American
Citizens were required to assist in the capture of a putatively escaped slave, and anyone interfering with the capture or hiding a former slave could be fined and jailed.
From Los Angeles Times
Stretching such extrapolations beyond Earth—as in the now infamous case of putative microfossils in a Martian meteorite—is a shaky prospect indeed.
From Scientific American
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
