as in allegedly
according to what has been said
—used to indicate what has been said or reported
The medication's side effects are reportedly few and mild. They reportedly stole one million dollars.
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Recent Examples of reportedly
The same group of Chileans that burglarized the homes of Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Joe Burrow also reportedly committed the crimes at Ja Morant's house.
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Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2025
The alligators and their three dozen other kinds of animal friends use the sewers under the Florida city to travel around the urban environment in peace reportedly.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2025
Ueda’s comments come after BOJ board member Hajime Takata reportedly said Tuesday that the Japanese central bank needs to raise interest rates further, as keeping them low at current levels could result in excessive risk-taking and higher inflation.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2025
The document also reportedly says that all disputes would be resolved by courts in New York, as if a New York court could adjudicate something so open-ended.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2025
The alligators and their three dozen other kinds of animal friends use the sewers under the Florida city to travel around the urban environment in peace reportedly.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2025
Ueda’s comments come after BOJ board member Hajime Takata reportedly said Tuesday that the Japanese central bank needs to raise interest rates further, as keeping them low at current levels could result in excessive risk-taking and higher inflation.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2025
The document also reportedly says that all disputes would be resolved by courts in New York, as if a New York court could adjudicate something so open-ended.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reportedly
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The versatile Chestnut, 56, leads with intellect, charm and six-pack abs as Dr. John Watson, the beloved colleague of the apparently deceased Sherlock Holmes, in CBS' modern series.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Miller’s apparently been leaning on his new teammate this spring.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Stoking fear makes people more likely to back harsh measures purportedly targeting crime.—
Brittany Friedman,
The Conversation,
21 Feb. 2025
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In only a month of Trump 2.0, Musk has helped architect mass firings of federal workers to purportedly make the government more efficient by cutting costs.—
Angrej Singh,
Axios,
20 Feb. 2025
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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
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But Vought’s smile and the evidently apolitical nature of the 28 words posted on Facebook and X were anything but normal for progressive alums.—
Mason Laney,
National Review,
15 Feb. 2025
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And Stone, who’s 81 now, evidently couldn’t be cajoled into comment.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Sociologists have been perplexed at the scale and stubbornness of the decline in fertility, which does not appear to be materially impacted by various governments' attempts to intervene with supposedly birth-inducing policies like tax credits.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Brügger, who’s made a specialty of exposing corruption, human rights, and law-violating kingpins, sees an opportunity to question the myth of Denmark as the least corrupt country in the world, a welfare state supposedly built on trust.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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After all, a yearslong belief that demographic shifts, population growth and rapid urbanization had Democrats on the cusp of flipping the nation’s most populous Republican state was seemingly in tatters after November.—
J. David Goodman,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The main characters seemingly walk through the state in Season 5 and stay in Richmond for at least a week.—
Sabrina Moreno,
Axios,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Reportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reportedly. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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