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Fresh or dried leaves can be made into a calming tea that reputedly reduces anxiety.
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Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
Just as generals reputedly prepare to fight the last war, foreign policy officials lean heavily on historical analogies in addressing current threats.
—Jon Finer, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2019
None of the residents in nearby communities want the $1.2 billion waste-to-energy incinerator, despite the fact that the new technology is reputedly greener, cleaner and far less smelly.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
Enlarge / Ambras Castle's portrait of Vlad III (c. 1560), reputedly a copy of an original made during his lifetime.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2023
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Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
Just as generals reputedly prepare to fight the last war, foreign policy officials lean heavily on historical analogies in addressing current threats.
—Jon Finer, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2019
None of the residents in nearby communities want the $1.2 billion waste-to-energy incinerator, despite the fact that the new technology is reputedly greener, cleaner and far less smelly.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
Enlarge / Ambras Castle's portrait of Vlad III (c. 1560), reputedly a copy of an original made during his lifetime.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2023
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His wife and widow, Baby Doe Tabor, was equally famous, having lured Horace Tabor away from his first wife with her reportedly unmatched beauty.James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
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Trump has long embraced the oil and gas lobby, reportedly offering a quid pro quo to oil executives in April to reverse restrictions on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic and do away with rules freezing permits for liquified natural gas and restricting tailpipe emissions.Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Longtime pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are both sporting beards, and apparently there's a special reason for the unexpected twinning.Lauren Huff, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Novak Djokovic will skip the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy and apparently look forward to 2025.Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Beijing has vigorously denied those claims, which came to light with the 2015 publication by German magazine Der Spiegel of documents purportedly from US National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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The program was purportedly designed to give disadvantaged young men specialized vocational training in a masculinized military environment.Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Ives’s legendary status initially rested on his reputation as a maverick pioneer who supposedly had beaten Schoenberg in the race to the atonal pole.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Translated, price controls from the Federal Reserve to supposedly bring down market prices.John Tamny, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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His good friend, director Sacha Gervasi, and podcast host Rich Roll evidently think so.Peter White, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Some stations evidently weren’t happy about running the ad.Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
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Heading into the second half of a season where seemingly nothing has gone right, the 49ers are doubling down.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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The project was daunting: the powerful steel company seemingly has strong influence in the area and has shown little interest in accommodating outsiders.Will Tizard, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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But any law that would overturn the 2015 ruling would ostensibly overturn the 2013 ruling too.Kate Sosin, Them, 5 Nov. 2024
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The result would be reported numbers that were ostensibly compare across companies but really wouldn’t be due to different choices in how to measure a specific data item.Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Loading your audio article Of all the overseas leaders avidly watching the U.S. election results, the two happiest were probably Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024
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If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them.Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Reputedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reputedly. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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