putative
Example Sentences
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Its putative target is contingency fees, which are typically percentages of the payouts awarded by juries or through negotiations.
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A senior Sikh policeman, putatively working for the colonial government, protected Vasdev from arrest.
To surrender such decisions to some putatively wiser entity is, in some essential sense, to surrender our humanness.
“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.
In the blunt words of Document 19, “Marxism is incompatible with any theistic worldview,” an obstacle to socialism’s putatively “brilliant future.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
