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So I mean, how does this play out? This is all happening notwithstanding the fact that the putative leader of the Republican Party is the former president, who is continuing to argue day in and day out that Biden is an illegitimate president, i think it's very clear that you're going to see 2024 as a more significant political crisis for the United States than 2020 was. – Ian Bremmer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In a putative self-defence situation, the violence must still be proportionate. Here we have three people delivering kicks and punches to a person lying down, the three should be convicted of assault according to my description of events. – Daniel Suneson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Firstly, this paper does not attempt to link the rise in mobile phone use with a rise in brain tumor incidence directly, there are statistical techniques available to do this, for instance using time-series analysis, which attempt to link changes in a putative risk factor with changes in the outcome of interest over time. This was not done here. – Lion Shahab	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There are statistical techniques available to do this, for instance using time-series analysis, which attempt to link changes in a putative risk factor with changes in the outcome of interest over time. This was not done here, second, even if such a link were found, correlation does not imply causation. – Lion Shahab	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The report is merely a compilation of putative ‘tiger numbers for large areas’ put out by officials of various countries. – Ullas Karanth	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

So I mean, how does this play out? This is all happening notwithstanding the fact that the putative leader of the Republican Party is the former president, who is continuing to argue day in and day out that Biden is an illegitimate president, i think it's very clear that you're going to see 2024 as a more significant political crisis for the United States than 2020 was.

– Ian Bremmer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In a putative self-defence situation, the violence must still be proportionate. Here we have three people delivering kicks and punches to a person lying down, the three should be convicted of assault according to my description of events.

– Daniel Suneson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Firstly, this paper does not attempt to link the rise in mobile phone use with a rise in brain tumor incidence directly, there are statistical techniques available to do this, for instance using time-series analysis, which attempt to link changes in a putative risk factor with changes in the outcome of interest over time. This was not done here.

– Lion Shahab

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are statistical techniques available to do this, for instance using time-series analysis, which attempt to link changes in a putative risk factor with changes in the outcome of interest over time. This was not done here, second, even if such a link were found, correlation does not imply causation.

– Lion Shahab

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The report is merely a compilation of putative ‘tiger numbers for large areas’ put out by officials of various countries.

– Ullas Karanth

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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