putative

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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

In India, the unexpected pummeling by a putative partner has led to anger and soul-searching.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

This position in the orchestra, but putative, conceived as a feint to draw me away from my fellows so that rogues might throw me in chains—this phantasm might now be conjured to solidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson