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Recent Examples of purportedly
Bizarre pivot Trump’s sudden embrace of Jewish students, pitting them against purportedly reckless university leaders, remains bewildering.
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James Druckman, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Other brands offer less prescriptive test kits, including one that claims to determine your biological age and another that can purportedly provide insights on your body’s response to stress.
—Sara Braun, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
So, Malouff purportedly fired Babb.
—Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Democratic politicians are purportedly in favor of ending partisan redistricting (or gerrymandering), which is a common applause line in stump speeches.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
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James Druckman, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Other brands offer less prescriptive test kits, including one that claims to determine your biological age and another that can purportedly provide insights on your body’s response to stress.
—Sara Braun, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
So, Malouff purportedly fired Babb.
—Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Democratic politicians are purportedly in favor of ending partisan redistricting (or gerrymandering), which is a common applause line in stump speeches.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purportedly
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Neff's blood alcohol content was allegedly more than twice the legal limit following the crash.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Officials said the migrants are from Senegal, Mali and Guinea and were busted for allegedly selling counterfeit items in the area.—
Greg Norman , Alexis McAdams , Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Among the 65 submissions was one that detailed the discovery of a 1930s-era oil can from Fresno that was supposedly uncovered at SDSU during an on-campus building project.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Oct. 2025
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To break the encryption would mean finding a fast solution to these supposedly infeasible problems, an act that would overturn a foundational assumption of modern math.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
22 Oct. 2025
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Generally, what happens to the White House’s trash is secret—at least as of 2018, which was apparently the last time the federal government released any information on where Oval Office garbage goes.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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The Lollapalooza show, the group says, was apparently manifested by the guitarist Parkinson.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
25 Oct. 2025
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Because her eight-episode hiatus will reportedly run consecutively, Scorsone will likely not return to Grey's Anatomy until 2026.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Things reportedly got heated on the set of Outer Banks' fifth and final season earlier this week.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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What ostensibly started as a war against the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl has now ballooned into a far broader clash – spanning rare earths, American soybean exports, technology controls and China’s energy dealings with Russia.—
Jhasua Razo,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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The subterfuge saw Colthurst ride his bicycle to Kensington Palace ostensibly to have tea with an old friend (the story was captured in the Netflix series The Crown).—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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The tank, introduced in 1980, reputedly performs poorly in rain and fog, and is vulnerable to cheap hobby drones fitted with explosive charges.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Chanel was reputedly a fan of the salon’s hot chocolate and its famous pastry, the Mont-Blanc: meringue topped with a dome of chestnut-purée vermicelli, said to have been inspired by hairstyles of the Belle Époque.—
Leslie Camhi,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Sep. 2025
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American leaders should not hesitate to rein in Taiwan’s evidently reckless leader, perhaps with a private warning.—
Lyle Goldstein,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Since the skirt was so evidently the outfit's statement piece, Biles simply paired it with a form-fitting, white long sleeve and white, knee-high boots.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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As Monaco ramped up the second-half pressure, with Spurs seemingly having no answer for the pace and fervour with which the Ligue 1 side attacked Frank’s defence from all angles, Netherlands international Teze looked set to break the deadlock.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Citing climate change concerns and the melting ice sheet, Greenland implemented a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in 2021—seemingly bringing all oil dreams to an end—but the government agreed that White Flame’s licenses were grandfathered and remained valid.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Purportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purportedly. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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