How to Use putative in a Sentence

putative

adjective

• That’s the state of play in Texas, the putative new home of SpaceX and X.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
• Here was the chance to decipher the putative text of the polyptich.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2016
• This is the putative excuse for the Emirati black sites.
  — Cori Crider, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
• At the same time the door, and putative cause of the disaster, came off entirely.
  — Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2020
• James Harden, the putative MVP, is playing out of his mind.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 15 Mar. 2018
• The federal court in the Southern District of New York will look at the words used, and the conduct of the attorney and the putative client.
  — Danny Cevallos /, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2018
• Worse still, one of his putative ministers turned the job down.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Even the putative villains of the story are allowed, in this measure, a voice.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• The suit is a putative class action on behalf of Yahoo users.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2018
• But that is only the beginning of the movie’s problems with its putative theme.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2018
• But the decision may well be the defining moment for the putative Supreme Court of Facebook.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 May 2021
• On the hunt Researchers hope to trap any Asian giant hornets in the area where the putative queen was found using a mixture of fruit juice and rice wine.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 1 June 2020
• But the interview did not live up to its putative victim’s billing.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• But most of these putative douchebags aren't really douchebags at all.
  — Richard Dorment, Esquire, 18 June 2008
• The putative reason: The band, which was at its height and falling apart at the same time, had learned that the festival was charging $25 for tickets, not the $17 the Clash had been told.
  — Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 28 June 2017
• One way to measure these mores and practices is to count state laws: How many states recognize a putative right and how many try to abridge it?
  — Akhil Reed Amar, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• But even as the dollar has lost some ground, the gap between it and any putative rival has only grown and shows no signs of stopping.
  — Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• And, in other cases, the putative planets are thought to orbit both stars.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• But for the rest of us, the phenomenon is more interesting - and more fun - than any putative good that might come of it.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• McCormack, the show’s putative straight man, amps up a Jeeves-and-Wooster huffiness to try to keep up with her.
  — Vulture, 24 July 2023
• The math for calculating the scale of a putative global climate refugee crisis is a bit fuzzy.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Beneath the cartouche are a compass, a ruler, a palette, and paintbrushes, and his right hand sits on the bottom of the putative frame — a trompe-l’oeil show-off move of the first order.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Our belief is based on the putative mechanism of NV-387.
  — Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
• And dark-horse putative candidates are getting their moment in the sun.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• But at the same time, his war of words with General al-Burhan, his putative boss and the army commander, grew steadily more intense.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• The aim was to trigger a bill or an audit when the IRS discovered the putative payee had not reported the income.
  — Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
• So here’s some: The putative Islamic State is bleeding cash.
  — Cohen Peart, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2017
• The putative fourth, sterile neutrino lurked in the shadows.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• The putative dense spots created by inflation could have served as the seeds of future structures.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• Protecting the statue was also the putative focus of the Aug. 12 rally, a rally that attracted both a wide array of right-wing groups and counterprotesters.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024