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Recent Examples of purportedly
The stunts here are purportedly real, though, and each is tied, sometimes tenuously, to a cardinal sin.
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Hilton Als, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
The radio broadcasts that provide the North Korean population with access to legitimate news outside the Kim regime’s control have declined by roughly 80%, a decision purportedly executed by South Korea’s spy agency.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 31 July 2025
The project, purportedly inspired by journeys to Ghana, Jamaica, and other international locales, is available for CD and digital pre-orders at starlinegallery.co.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2025
In recent weeks, Paramount has taken other steps that Trump praised, purportedly in the name of getting the FCC’s approval for the merger.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
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Hilton Als, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
The radio broadcasts that provide the North Korean population with access to legitimate news outside the Kim regime’s control have declined by roughly 80%, a decision purportedly executed by South Korea’s spy agency.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 31 July 2025
The project, purportedly inspired by journeys to Ghana, Jamaica, and other international locales, is available for CD and digital pre-orders at starlinegallery.co.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2025
In recent weeks, Paramount has taken other steps that Trump praised, purportedly in the name of getting the FCC’s approval for the merger.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purportedly
Adverb
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And since China supposedly doesn’t prioritize safety, racing ahead—even recklessly—is the safer long-term bet.—
Brian Tse,
Time,
13 Aug. 2025
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After spending last week hyping Grok's spicy new features, Elon Musk kicked off this week by threatening to sue Apple for supposedly gaming the App Store rankings to favor ChatGPT over Grok.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
12 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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After the game, Padres manager Mike Shildt said a shin that apparently struck a camera was more of the concern.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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During the summit Friday, lunch was apparently cancelled.—
Chiara Eisner,
NPR,
16 Aug. 2025
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After a Tuesday meeting to discuss Israel’s war plans, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly emerged in favor of the military taking complete control of Gaza.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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OpenAI has reportedly hired a forensic psychiatrist to study its products’ effects on people’s mental health.—
Eliza Strickland,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Despite the seemingly sweet resolution to their storyline (and an ostensibly upbeat last line of dialogue), there’s a strange undercurrent to the Nagisa and Natsuo segment that suggests foreboding as much as potential happiness — a mysterious tension befitting the creator that Miyake is adapting.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
17 Aug. 2025
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The series follows a group of recently deceased strangers who are ostensibly living in some version of Heaven, only to realize there's something off about their seemingly utopian new home.—
Tanya Melendez,
EW.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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The dispatch England, Napoleon Bonaparte reputedly once said, is a nation of shopkeepers.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
16 July 2025
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Rice Japan holds a cherished place in Japanese national culture — samurai reputedly used to be paid in it.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
Adverb
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In the income tax context, the FTB has evidently adopted a similar interpretation for whether a business is conducting business or carrying on a business within California and is therefore subject to apportionment.—
Robert W. Wood,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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The more conspiratorially minded went further, suggesting without evidence that LePatner or her colleagues had been Tamura’s actual targets all along — just as Thompson had evidently been singled out by his killer.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
1 Aug. 2025
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Swift and Kelce famously started dating in the summer of 2023, and seemingly first confirmed their romance when Swift started popping up at his NFL games in September of that year.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The major inciting incident saw Carano sharing a post from another account that seemingly compared the treatment of conservatives in the U.S. during the COVID pandemic to that of Jewish people during Nazi-era Germany.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Purportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purportedly. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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