1
as in intending
to have in mind as a purpose or goal
do you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday?
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as in alleging
to state as a fact usually forcefully
he purports to be an expert in criminalistics
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Recent Examples of purporting
Backed by data purporting to show that Drake, in particular, has benefitted from billions of fake streams, the lawsuit accuses Spotify of turning a blind eye to exploitation of its payout model, which allocates royalties to artists based on their share of total streaming volume.
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Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2025
Last week, some employees received a message purporting to be a potential job interview that was in fact a phishing exercise sent by Target’s security department.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
While searching the two suspects, police found gas masks and a fake suicide note addressed to Mills purporting to be from her husband, according to authorities.
—Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Steeple Times published screen grabs purporting to show Hervey's comments, said to have been published to her Instagram Stories.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The below-ground theme park, as historian Ashleigh Androsoff explains, offers tours purporting to tell two local stories.
—JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
Similarly, in January 2024, a robocall of a fake voice recording purporting to be that of President Joe Biden was broadcast to potential New Hampshire voters urging them not to vote in the primary election.
—John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
The Supreme Court turned away Missouri’s bid to revive its law purporting to declare various federal gun restrictions unconstitutional in the state, the justices announced Monday.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 6 Oct. 2025
The group posted a video taken from another vessel, purporting to show the Yulara vessel being hit with water cannons.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2025
Last week, some employees received a message purporting to be a potential job interview that was in fact a phishing exercise sent by Target’s security department.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
While searching the two suspects, police found gas masks and a fake suicide note addressed to Mills purporting to be from her husband, according to authorities.
—Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Steeple Times published screen grabs purporting to show Hervey's comments, said to have been published to her Instagram Stories.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The below-ground theme park, as historian Ashleigh Androsoff explains, offers tours purporting to tell two local stories.
—JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
Similarly, in January 2024, a robocall of a fake voice recording purporting to be that of President Joe Biden was broadcast to potential New Hampshire voters urging them not to vote in the primary election.
—John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
The Supreme Court turned away Missouri’s bid to revive its law purporting to declare various federal gun restrictions unconstitutional in the state, the justices announced Monday.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 6 Oct. 2025
The group posted a video taken from another vessel, purporting to show the Yulara vessel being hit with water cannons.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purporting
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After the death of his addict father, Ethan heads back to see if there’s any money to be made from selling his home, intending to stay, only briefly, with his aunt Sarah, Metcalf’s character, a Brunhilde of the high prairie.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Combs’ lawyers filed a two-page court document on Monday, October 20 intending to appeal his conviction.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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The lawsuit also accuses the MD-11 model and its CF-6 engines of having a troubling safety history, alleging that the aircraft has been linked to multiple catastrophic failures and ranks among the least reliable commercial planes still in service.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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Last month, Berry’s family filed a lawsuit against the city of Sacramento and RT alleging wrongful death alleging the agency neglected to ensure the safety of their passengers.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The next year, eleven journalists went on to form the White House Correspondents’ Association in response to rumors that the Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents was planning on selecting which reporters were invited to presidential news conferences.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
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They had been alerted that Running Fence was planning to enter the ocean despite having no permit.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Second, the large amplitudes of the gravitational waves needed to generate the events that Weber was claiming a detection of would provide more energy than could possibly cosmically exist in any-and-all forms of radiation combined; the Universe as a whole ruled his interpretation out.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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Orbán, however, denied this, claiming that the Croatian government would need to enlarge the pipeline to meet Hungary’s needs.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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There’s nothing anti-tech about insisting that invention and fairness coexist.—
Gerard Scimeca,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Several tech players are already constructing private energy plants for their own use as part of their data center buildouts, so there is nothing radical about Democrats insisting on tying approvals for data centers to bearing the cost of enhancing the public grid.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Someone trying to keep the clicks coming to make a living, or a leader of the repressed?—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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My body’s in a C shape, trying to track the aim.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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Clark’s delivery was confident, polished and emotionally resonant — drawing clear comparisons to early-2000s country stars while asserting her place as a rising voice in the genre.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
11 Nov. 2025
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The demonstrators, some wielding bats, appeared to be asserting the jurisdiction of the Edo people’s ceremonial king, Oba Ewuare II, over the region’s cultural patrimony.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Nov. 2025
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The company count included insiders like Musk, who held around a 15% stake in Tesla going into the proxy and was allowed to vote his shares.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
11 Nov. 2025
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But going into markets relying solely on territory pre-sales alone — once the norm at AFM — is today a rarity, with most packages having some financing already in place to mitigate risk — and jitters.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Purporting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purporting. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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