allegedly

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Recent Examples of allegedly On Tuesday, social media feeds were flooded with users shocked after allegedly witnessing celebrity blogger Perez Hilton live-streaming acts of self-harm on TikTok. Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026 Rabbitt said that planning for the deaths took place as far back as June 5, as Steadman and Myers, who lived in the same apartment building, had been allegedly conspiring through texts about their plot. Matt Foster, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026 Investigators said surveillance footage from inside the bus showed Khan directing the girl to a specific seat before allegedly touching her inappropriately while securing her seatbelt and after she was seated. Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Montoya Gonzalez was allegedly shot twice in the ordeal, per WBNS. Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026 So when Costner allegedly failed to surface, the director made the kind of decision he was supposed to be making. Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026 The pants had allegedly not been sold for $98 since at least October 2025, Courthouse News Service reported. Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2026 The Felixer runs, admirably, on solar power; its poison, somewhat less admirably, was allegedly considered by the Nazis for use in their death camps before being deemed too dangerous. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 In April 2024, he was fired after allegedly sharing sensitive internal information with, according to The Wall Street Journal, Holden Karnofsky, whose wife works at Anthropic. Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegedly
reportedly
Adverb
  • The Class of ’26 is now in the job market -- reportedly the worst entry-level job market in years.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • That same day, the Houthis launched a flurry of attacks that reportedly killed and wounded dozens near the Yemen-Saudi border – sparking condemnation from Jordanian, Bahraini and Kuwaiti authorities.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Allegedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegedly. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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