How to Use putative in a Sentence

putative

adjective

• How does all this relate to the putative peace-deal in Ukraine?
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• Worse still, one of his putative ministers turned the job down.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Here was the chance to decipher the putative text of the polyptich.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2016
• But the interview did not live up to its putative victim’s billing.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The complaint says the putative class action is worth more than $5 million.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Oct. 2024
• Even the putative villains of the story are allowed, in this measure, a voice.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• And, in other cases, the putative planets are thought to orbit both stars.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• That’s the state of play in Texas, the putative new home of SpaceX and X.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
• And dark-horse putative candidates are getting their moment in the sun.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Many of our putative Gulf allies may rethink their ally-ship.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 May 2026
• But the sheer fervor of protest from putative allies stunned Eaddy.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
• 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
• The math for calculating the scale of a putative global climate refugee crisis is a bit fuzzy.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• The putative dense spots created by inflation could have served as the seeds of future structures.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 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
• For those wearing the putative target on their back, this can surely be agonizing.
  — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
• Uber rode his self-confidence to a putative value of $70 billion.
  — Michael Hiltzik, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• What about Williams’ putative second civil rights movement?
  — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
• Like many of today’s flowers, the putative ancestor contained both male and female parts on the same blossom.
  — Patrick Monahan, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2017
• These putative restorers of greatness evoke a vision of the past that never was and sell it to those who feel a loss of identity in the present.
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
• Most notably, there was a putative class-action case against Spotify, in which the court has been asked to approve a settlement.
  — Robert Levine, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2017
• 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 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 only Orson to treat Val half-decently is Eve’s putative mother-in-law.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
• 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
• As the putative front-runner in a large Democratic field, Swalwell bolstered that equation.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026