Putative

Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani showed up in New Hampshire on the former Massachusetts governor's magical day, underscoring why Romney is plagued by the word "putative," which almost always appears before "front-runner." ❋ E.J. Dionne Jr. (2011)

I think the major problem with Europe today is a lack of democracy, even in putative democratic countries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just because I disagree with a certain putative means to reduce the number of abortions (and it is hardly well established that government distribution of birth control reduces the number of abortions), it does not follow that I am not actually prolife. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Others, like William of Conches and the Arabic doctors, demonstrated an interest in putative astrological influences on the fetus's development. 42 But by the mid-thirteenth century, Vincent of Beauvais followed his source, the Cistercian Helinand of Froidmont, a twelfth-century critic of astrology, and strongly attacked the belief in the planets 'power to determine sex differentiation in the womb. 43 Medical writers generally avoided the question of celestial interference and concentrated on the positive and negative influences of terrestrial bodies, especially the maternal body encasing the fetus. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Coburn, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and Mike Crapo of Idaho, calling the putative deal a blatant violation of the group's "no new taxes" pledge, which most Republican lawmakers have signed. ❋ Jonathan Weisman (2011)

Later Iran would be increasingly identified as a putative rationale for extending it into the Persian ❋ Unknown (2009)

In essence, the current evolutionary approach is goal-oriented, namely the putative fitness advantage of future generations is taken as the goal. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps the specter of losing the nomination after being dubbed the putative front runner, or of gaining the nomination in a bitterly divisive nomination contest then losing the presidency, might be likened to a Pyrrhic victory. ❋ Unknown (2008)

According to Bondi's theory, the universe as far back into the past as we might look would always look the same; there was no evolution, there could be no “fossils”, as Bondi called putative evidence of a universe different in the past from our present one. ❋ Gale, George (2007)

A marriage of this latter kind is called a putative marriage. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Later Iran would be increasingly identified as a putative rationale for extending it into the Persian Gulf and, if the US and its allies could devise some method of getting there, the landlocked Caspian Sea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A major gene (Gp-9), identified as a putative pheromone-binding protein on the basis of a modest amino acid sequence identity, has been suggested to influence the expression of colony social organization. ❋ Unknown (2008)

1513 BCE - that is, the putative date of the great eruption of Thera that blew up 2/3rds of the island in its violence - with the Exodus from Egypt, with at least some of the "ten plagues" being explained by natural phenomenon associated with the cataclysmic eruption of Thera's volcano. ❋ Jan (2008)

Neocons are not conservatives, because it is not a conservative plank to create a bunch of lies and use them to attack a country which is neither an iminent threat nor any kind of putative strategic threat. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Real-time quantitative methylation-specific PCR assays of 14 genes with known differential methylation patterns in cancer tissues, such as putative tumor suppressor RASSF1A, revealed higher promoter methylation levels in eight late-passage lines. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Since the cause of heart disease isn’t really established, all we have to go by are what are called putative risk factors, which means factors that a lot of experts think are risk factors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A judge nevertheless decreed that she was his "putative" widow, and she went henceforth by Arlene Meraux. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(C-D) Height images of long, straight and circular fibrils, fragments, and both clustered and scattered 'putative' oligomers. ❋ Diane Latawiec Et Al. (2010)

That guy banged me so hard my [put put] hurts. Hey dude, stop being a put put and ask her out. I'm going to [pile drive] that put put well into next week. She's so hot, I'd dump a gallon in her put put... [maybe two]. ❋ Sargent Hulka (2018)

"[Aye] bro i just won [10,000 dollars] on a [lottery ticket]" the response from the person he said that to would be "put it put it" ❋ Jogonzo (2018)

You gotta put in a few [bucks] to [toke up], we've got [plenty] to go around though don't worry.. ❋ TFS (2005)

"I put on for [my city]." - [Young Jeezy] ❋ Natty Dreadlock (2008)

I putted on [a dress] ❋ AyaTheDoggo (2021)

[I put that] [on my momma] [you stupid]. ❋ Gr9dhaus (2016)

[guy]: putted [girl]:putted!! ❋ Hazen (2018)

That [party] was [wild]. We [definitely] put it on. ❋ Somedude32234 (2009)

1: That's a [nice shirt], [why don't you] put it on? 2: Yeah, [Sally] put it on him! ❋ CheckBox (2006)

"i [nailed] [brenda] last night" "[no you didn't]" "put thaaaaaaaat" ❋ Justin (2005)