PURPORTING Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

purporting

verb

present participle of purport

as in intending

to have in mind as a purpose or goal do you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday?

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as in alleging

to state as a fact usually forcefully he purports to be an expert in criminalistics

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Recent Examples of purporting Because Iran is inaccessible to many journalists, readers must be especially careful about reporting purporting to know or show what is going on inside Iran. —

Andrea Hickerson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026 Residents were urged not to click on any links or scan any QR codes from messages purporting to be from a court. —

Aldo Toledo, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026 The post included a link to a story in a right-wing media outlet purporting to show Iranian election interference. —

Marie-Rose Sheinerman, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026 Pakistani security sources shared video with CNN, purporting to show Pakistani strikes on Kabul. —

Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026 The vice president and part owner of the company reported being the victim of fraud last September after an email purporting to be from a vendor the company uses allegedly indicated the vendor would be changing its banking information, the warrant affidavit said. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2026 The reports involved an unknown individual calling several people purporting to be a law enforcement officer, falsely stating that the victims had outstanding warrants, had failed to appear for jury duty or missed a court appearance. —

Paula Wethington, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026 But commenters were also fascinated by a series of colorful graphs plotting dose-response curves for individual types of exercise, purporting to show that walking is the best, jogging is good but not too much, swimming is no good at all, and so on. —

Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 30 Jan. 2026 But then last January, an obscure AI startup named DeepSeek released a generative AI platform, R1, which was comparable to ChatGPT but purporting to use just a fraction of Nvidia’s bleeding-edge chips. —

Charlie Campbell, Time, 27 Jan. 2026

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Tucker and her then-boyfriend, Daniel Ryan Garrett, broke into Dean’s apartment intending to steal motorcycle parts.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2026
On July 16, 1999, Kennedy sat in the pilot’s seat of his single-engine plane, intending to drop off sister-in-law Lauren in Martha's Vineyard before continuing to Hyannis Port with his wife for cousin Rory Kennedy's wedding.

— Erin Jensen, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026