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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a putative" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is generally accepted or supposed, often without conclusive evidence.
Example: "The putative leader of the group was never officially appointed, yet everyone regarded him as such."
Alternatives: "alleged" or "supposed".
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First housemate to mention a putative political career?
Anyhow, from a putative leader, it was a cunning speech.
"A beautiful woman and a putative scandal," he said.
A putative successor was quick to rule himself out of the reckoning.
He's written a putative bestseller, Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch.
But his proposals for the arts, under a putative Tory government, leave me cold.
Alten squeezes some tense moments from the predicament of a putative paranoid with real enemies.
Yet Pakistan's stability remains a putative goal of the American military campaign in Afghanistan.
Maria Kowroski, however, is too passive as a putative Russian aristocrat in the second duet.
Recently the two men have been writing songs for a putative new Pentangle album.
This is a putative Christ for our times: uncertain, vulnerable, introspective.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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