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We listened vaguely to Our Father's tale of the putative Mercedes truck.† (source)
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A jealous rival who undermines her, deceiving the putative patron as to her true, noble nature.† (source)
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By the end of the day fifty people had been injured, and the putatively allied countries were once more at each other's throats.† (source)
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But on the day of her putative labor, Hema heard only silence.† (source)
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At college and elsewhere I had played out this solemn little cultural charade too many times to be unaware that it was a prelude, a preliminary feeling-out of mutual sensibilities in which the substance of what one said was less important than the putative authority with which one's words were spoken.† (source)
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However, as your putative brother and former teacher I feel obligated to mention a couple of things.† (source)
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he loved forgotten scandals in high life and was an expert in putative parentage;† (source)
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The fact that they were aboard a putatively hostile vessel and had found friendly Russian-speaking men had been overpowering for many of the young conscripts.† (source)
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She perceived that she could do office work without losing any of the putative feminine virtue of domesticity; that cooking and cleaning, when divested of the fussing of an Aunt Bessie, take but a tenth of the time which, in a Gopher Prairie, it is but decent to devote to them.† (source)
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Sir John Dalrymple, the putative father of a whining jesuitical piece, fallaciously called, "THE ADDRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF _ENGLAND_ TO THE INHABITANTS OF _AMERICA_," hath, perhaps, from a vain supposition, that the people here were to be frightened at the pomp and description of a king, given, (though very unwisely on his part) the real character of the present one: "But" says this writer, "if you are inclined to pay compliments to an administration, which we do not complain of," (meaning the Marquis of Rockingham's at the repeal of the Stamp Act) "it is very unfair in you to withhold them from that prince by WHOSE _NOD ALONE_ THEY WERE PERMITTED TO DO ANY THING."† (source)
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The idea that Aineias replanted civilization in the West was already traditional when Virgil took it up in The Aeneid, and it remained active as late as Geoffrey of Monmouth, who began his History of the British Kings (1133) with the Trojan diaspora and the settling of Albion by Brutus (sounds like "British"), a putative great-grandson of Aineias.† (source)
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It gave him a mysterious air, like a putative from the law.† (source)
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It should occur on average seven times per year, separated by intervals just slightly longer than that endured by Noah on his putative ark.† (source)
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If he believed that I was a gentlewoman in distress, he might provide me with temporary escort toward the coast and my putative embarkation for France.† (source)
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The study will shed some light on the putative cause of the recession.†putative = generally accepted
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