PURPORTEDLY Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

purportedly

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Recent Examples of purportedly The site has also purportedly been contacting people about exhibitions and other opportunities. — News Desk, Artforum, 20 Aug. 2026 Valhalla alone will purportedly have more than 20 transfers under first-year coach Jason Carter. — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026 SpaceX, for instance, purportedly aims to save humanity from future environmental catastrophes, like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, by colonizing the Moon and Mars. — Marissa E. Yingling, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026 The announcement of the senior appointments, purportedly made by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Monday, followed the naming of a new national security chief, Mohsen Rezaie, a day earlier. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for purportedly

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And in North Carolina, a police officer was charged with unlawfully accessing computers after allegedly using her department’s license plate reader system to look up the vehicle of her boyfriend’s ex-wife 31 times, including twice while off duty.

— Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
These professors incorporate allegedly responsible uses of GenAI into assignments, such as telling their students to upload course documents into an LLM and asking it to generate potential test questions.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of allegedly

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Those who do play with a single-hander, like Tsitsipas, Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti or Austria’s Lilli Tagger inspire a kind of fascination as to why anyone would go down a path that has become so unusual and supposedly counterproductive.

— Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
For years, America’s conversation about the Middle East revolved around terrorism, stability, and the supposedly binary choice between friendly dictators and dangerous Islamists.

— Ayman M. Mohyeldin, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of supposedly

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The brothers were apparently never scheduled to appear at the conference, though journalists and fans in the room seemed to not be aware of this.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Although law firms are beginning to embrace the benefits of generative AI, the technology apparently makes many law schools squeamish.

— Sian Leah Beilock, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of apparently

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Among the policy shifts reportedly on the table is a windfall tax aimed at banks and oil companies.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
Finally, in 2019, Sheeran married his longtime girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn, and the couple bought out the home of another neighbor, who reportedly complained about the compound’s ongoing renovations.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of reportedly

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The result is a twisted, naturalistic fairytale about structural realities; with the right boot-heel at one’s neck, even ostensibly life-giving forces like forests and rivers can be turned against innocent people.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
But challengers emerged and weakened its quest for dominance, often with different models ostensibly tailored to be more local.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of ostensibly

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And Mersan & Tümkalıp, another machinery purveyor, is reputedly negotiating assistance deals to retroactively modernize damaged production lines that idled during the war years.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026
The backstory Dating from the 15th century, and with a facade that was reputedly designed by Michelangelo, Villa San Michele was originally the property of the Davanzati family and then a Franciscan monastery.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of reputedly

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Giles, their left wing-back, seemingly does not stop running.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The latter ensured fewer protests against seemingly endless deployments but also meant that a disproportionate share of the population would bear the burden.

— Michael E. Neagle, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026

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