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5/28/15

Putative

Putative

<pew-tah-tiv>

assumed; accepted; presumed:

believing something to be a fact or truth.

It is a putative belief to believe the earth is round.

Memory trick:
putative reminds of compute

At work:
Your putative report needs more facts to support it.

(c) 2015 E. Carruthers

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