reportedly

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Recent Examples of reportedly While Demna was at Balenciaga, the brand’s revenue reportedly ballooned to close to $2 billion, according to The New York Times. Mecca Pryor, Essence, 17 Mar. 2025 That tournament reportedly has a deal to take at least two teams each from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East conferences. Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2025 Ye and Adidas joined forces for a lucrative partnership in 2013, as the Yeezy footwear line was reportedly worth $1.5 billion at the time of the termination. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025 During the economic blackout last Friday, Target reportedly saw a drop in traffic both online and the app. Solcyré Burga, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reportedly
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Adverb
  • He was apparently seen purchasing two bags of cement, a construction bucket, a box of heavy-duty trash bags, Clorox disinfectant spray and insect repellent with cash at a nearby Home Depot.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • But those with the power to make peace a reality, apparently prefer to make war.
    TIME, TIME, 23 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • Weiss, 42, was charged with 14 counts of unauthorized computer access and 10 counts of identity theft after purportedly hacking thousands of accounts to download intimate photos and videos, according to an indictment filed in federal court Thursday.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Understanding the way that Trump replaces Judaism with Israel also helps explain why his actions that purportedly defend Jews do nothing of the sort.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 19 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many Republicans evidently still believe Trump will reduce the annual inflation rate to zero.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children's dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing's claims in the flashpoint waterway.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • Booker shot 6-of-17 and finished with 19 points and 11 assists, playing a little of his Team USA game of seemingly spending more energy moving the ball and trying to defend the perimeter.
    Joe Vardon, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Arakawa is believed to have died first, around Feb. 11, while Hackman seemingly died about a week later, as the last activity on his pacemaker was recorded on Feb. 18.
    Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025

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