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Recent Examples of purportedly
The area around the strait in the past has seen Iran seize commercial ships and purportedly launch attacks since President Donald Trump first unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers.
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Graham Underwood, arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Far from being mere congenial partnerships, most nineteenth- and twentieth-century alliances were complex and multipurpose arrangements used by great powers to restrain, control, and influence other purportedly friendly states.
—Nicholas Mulder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
The nonprofit organization Ziegler founded, Marco Polo, published thousands of Biden's emails, intimate photos, text messages and other documents purportedly from Biden's iPhone backup and cloud storage, according to the lawsuit.
—arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
But those cancellations were purportedly aimed at stripping diversity, equality and inclusiveness elements out of state policies, not at forcing parents to register their newborns in person.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
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Graham Underwood, arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Far from being mere congenial partnerships, most nineteenth- and twentieth-century alliances were complex and multipurpose arrangements used by great powers to restrain, control, and influence other purportedly friendly states.
—Nicholas Mulder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
The nonprofit organization Ziegler founded, Marco Polo, published thousands of Biden's emails, intimate photos, text messages and other documents purportedly from Biden's iPhone backup and cloud storage, according to the lawsuit.
—arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
But those cancellations were purportedly aimed at stripping diversity, equality and inclusiveness elements out of state policies, not at forcing parents to register their newborns in person.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purportedly
Adverb
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Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live and the man most single-handedly responsible for O’Brien’s stardom, supposedly hated it.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2025
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The bets supposedly involved basketball games and horse races.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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But those with the power to make peace a reality, apparently prefer to make war.—
TIME,
TIME,
23 Mar. 2025
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While the company plans to focus on growing its market share, specifically increasing its 10% share of the $10 billion bridal jewelry market and mid-single-digit share of the over $50 billion fashion jewelry market, Signet apparently couldn’t do that in 2024.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Elvis was a big fan of mixing and matching items, but reportedly, this $10,000 matching tuxedo (actually costing $2,500) was not his style.—
Tim Moffatt,
EW.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The pair was reportedly seen wiping away tears as the verdict was read on Friday.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
29 Mar. 2025
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There will even be an argument for the Giants to thread the needle and trade a veteran starter to make room for a younger one, while still ostensibly contending and adding on the offensive side.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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This week’s episode of ABC’s The Rookie — an homage of sorts to the movie Speed — was ostensibly about the hijacking of a city bus by bomb-toting baddies seeking a kajillion-dollar ransom.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
26 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Conrad Gessner, the sixteenth-century Swiss physician, naturalist, and linguist, and reputedly the first European to describe the guinea pig, the tulip, and the pencil, is also said to be the first to write extensively about the northern bald ibis.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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This sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic substitutes the brother emperors Caracalla and Geta for the original’s Commodus, modeling them not only on him, but on a host of Rome’s other reputedly bloodthirsty despots like Caligula, Nero, and Domitian.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
Adverb
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Promoting Tsunoda to the main squad seemed an obvious fix to the Perez problem, but Red Bull bosses Christian Horner and Helmut Marko evidently believed otherwise.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 Mar. 2025
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Many Republicans evidently still believe Trump will reduce the annual inflation rate to zero.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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The ongoing, seemingly relentless AI integration, has introduced a subtle but significant risk: agency decay.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Edwards missed the second frame after exiting the floor with a towel pressed against his face after seemingly getting poked in the eye.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Purportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purportedly. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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