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"ref": "1831, The Quarterly Christian Spectator, page 504:",
"text": "In answer to the objection, that if a thing is only putative, it is fictitious",
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"ref": "1879 November 9, Maurice Mauris, “A Materialistic Artist”, in New York Times, page 10:",
"text": "[T]he lady . . . insisted upon going herself, requesting me to mind for a second the baby. . . . lo! the baby awoke and stared at me with a pair of big frightened eyes, which the little thing in another moment rolled in all directions, as if in search of its putative mother.",
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"ref": "1985, Thomas J. Scorza, Dan K. Webb, Scott F. Turow, In the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Court No. 84-1141: United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. James Lendmann, Defendant-Appellant. Brief and Appendix for the United States, page 11:",
"text": "The government submits there is no inconsistency between the jury's putative conclusion that Lendmann did not intend to distribute the charged 3.59 grams of methamphetamine and its clear conclusions that Lendmann knowingly manufactured the same and knowingly attempted to make a kilogram more.",
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"ref": "1993, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Policy Implications of Lifting the Ban on Homosexuals in the Military: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Hearings Held May 4 and 5, 1993, page 285:",
"text": "You have the putative assumption, because everybody is interrogated, that everybody who has entered is heterosexual.",
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"ref": "2016 May 23, Max Deutscher, In Sensible Judgement, Routledge, →ISBN, page 99:",
"text": "We mistakenly identify the reasoning that we employ in order to show that a putative judgement is grounded, with what makes for the difference between its being a judgement rather than guesswork.",
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"ref": "2023 December 22, Anja Geitmann, Plant Cell Walls: Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights, CRC Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "The capacity of monoclonal antibodies such as 2F4 to identify the egg-box structure is only putative as Liners et al. (1989) mention in the abstract: “The epitope recognised is probably part of the dimers of pectin chains associated according to the 'egg-box' model,” and there is no definitive evidence of a strong specificity to such structures in muro.",
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"ref": "2006 August 18, Unmesh Kher, “No Neat Endings for the JonBenet Case”, in Time:",
"text": "Karr's past does raise suspicions. When he was arrested in Bangkok, he was living in a dormitory-like guesthouse in a neighborhood frequented by sex tourists. . . . Of course, Karr's putative pedophilia would not make him guilty of murder.",
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"ref": "2016 April 1, Pål Kolstø, Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe, Routledge, →ISBN, page 13:",
"text": "Nation-building strategies have two prongs: they aim as creating unity within, and difference without. […] It is not enough to tear down walls among the members of the putative nation: one must also erect imaginary boundaries around them that separate them from the outside world.",
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"ref": "2016 August 11, Mary Karr, “The Crotchgrabber”, in The New Yorker:",
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"ref": "1981, Michael Rush, Parliamentary Government in Britain, New York : Holmes & Meier Publishers:",
"text": "Paralleling this extension of government control was the development of a formally constituted opposition […] In some cases a former Prime Minister was clearly acknowledged as leader and putative Prime Minister , in others a generally-accepted leader emerged.",
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"ref": "2004, Katherine Joslin, Jane Addams: A Writer's Life, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 74:",
"text": "She requested that no announcement be made of the promised book until she had more of it down on paper. Having put some distance between herself and her putative book, she relaxed by continuing to lecture and to work on other projects.",
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"ref": "2008 November 27, Egon Börger, Antonio Cisternino, Advances in Software Engineering: Lipari Summer School 2007, Lipari Island, Italy, July 8-21, 2007, Revised Tutorial Lectures, Springer, →ISBN, page 13:",
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"ref": "2009 October 1, Christian Wolmar, Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain, Atlantic Books Ltd, →ISBN:",
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"roman": "hádanyj",
"sense": "commonly believed or deemed to be the case",
"word": "га́даний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prypustýmyj",
"sense": "commonly believed or deemed to be the case",
"word": "припусти́мий"
}
],
"word": "putative"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": ferómenos (os) vs. ως",
"path": [
"putative"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "putative",
"trace": ""
}
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