reputedly

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Recent Examples of reputedly His stepmother was a Swanson, an heir to the frozen-dinner fortune; his father was an ambassador under Ronald Reagan (and reputedly had ties to the C.I.A.). Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024 The tether stablecoin, a cryptocurrency designed to maintain parity with the US dollar and reputedly backed by dollar reserves (although there are questions regarding the composition of those reserves) has lost its peg and at the time of writing trades for 99 cents a unit. Gian M. Volpicelli, WIRED, 17 June 2022 In 1791, George Washington reputedly attended some sort of gathering in the sunny 17-by-30-foot ballroom that is now Aldous Bertram’s Charleston apartment. Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2024 In its day, Emmanuelle spawned a string of sequels, each reputedly worse than its predecessors, while star Sylvia Kristel became so immediately famous for taking off her clothes that the expectation blighted her entire career. Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reputedly 
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  • The incident reportedly took place on Dec. 4, but Edgewater Police Department in New Jersey didn’t address it publicly until Dec. 31.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Jabbar reportedly managed to navigate past safety measures and barricades put in place in anticipation of Wednesday’s Sugar Bowl, which was postponed to Thursday following the attack.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2025
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  • Donald Trump and Mike Pence Shake Hands During First Interaction in Nearly 4 Years Pence also addressed his wife Karen, 68, apparently staring straight ahead and declining to acknowledge Trump and Melania in a seemingly tense moment that was caught on tape.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In their five years of knowing each other, this is the first time that Johnny Mac has been invited over to Thadeus’s apartment—though that, apparently, had not been enough to move Thadeus’s housekeeping hand.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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  • Who Has to Fix This? 14 Easy Healthy Dinners to Put on Rotation in 2025 Months later, the European Commission criticized Athens for purportedly falsifying economic data in order to replace its drachma currency with the euro.
    Alan Cowell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Footage and images shared online purportedly showed all four buildings being struck as revelers gathered across the United States to see in the New Year, with thousands gathering in New York's Times Square for the iconic ball drop despite heavy rain being forecast.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
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  • In an October 2024 Time interview, Antonoff comments on his varying musical projects and how he’s viewed as someone who’s supposedly busier than other artists.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But supposedly, 99% of their government services are online, including procedures for setting up a business and filing all their taxes.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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  • The old ayatollah’s project has evidently run aground—and Iran’s pragmatists have fresh wind in their sails.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Many were left in tears by what De La Rosa chose to pack, as some of the items evidently have sentimental value.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • On July 22, 2024, photos began circulating from the set that showed Carrie, Aidan, Miranda, Charlotte, Seema, Harry, Anthony, and Giuseppe all seemingly attending a funeral.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Two adjacent cells, seemingly identical under the microscope, can have about 1,000 differences in their genomes.
    Jason Liebowitz, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
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  • Their agreeing to interfere came right after Trump spoke by phone with Alito, ostensibly about an applicant for an agency general counsel position that had been an Alito clerk.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • December ostensibly marked a return to a more stable labor market after Southeast hurricanes and worker strikes hammered employment totals in October, leading to higher-than-normal payroll gains the following month.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • Antar said that with the granite base, the sculpture probably weighs closer to 90 pounds.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Seniors and young adults 18 to 24 are least likely to own crypto, but probably for different reasons.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Reputedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reputedly. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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