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• DCI Peter Pascoe, one of the famous Andy Dalziel's brightest and best, who happened to work on the patch mentioned as a putative location for the putative job, that was who So it was worth a punt calling in that debt which, furthermore, would be understood to include the major share of credit should anything ever come of this business Pascoe asked questions, made notes and encouraging noises OK,' he said finally. —  Reginald Hill
• 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. —  CITIZEN SANE ~ common sense from the Left
• Another potential reason is misplaced paternalistic protectiveness: researchers may feel that they are serving a public good by alerting doctors and the world to the putative, albeit ephemeral and largely baseless, "dangers" of dietary supplements. —  American Chronicle
• And then it occurred to me that I will someday have to decide in which order my (putative, theoretical) children will see the series. —  Brooklyn Arden
• The McGirr and colleagues study is the most explicit and comprehensive examination of impulsive aggression as a putative endophenotype for suicidal behavior yet reported. —  Am J Psychiatry current issue

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