reputedly

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Recent Examples of reputedly This city of two million reputedly produces nearly two-thirds of all the Christmas decorations purchased worldwide. Charlie Campbell, Time, 28 Mar. 2025 Expect kitschy charm, Polynesian dancers and large drinks, which reputedly use the same recipes devised by tiki-craze originator Don the Beachcomber in the 1930s, are enduring lures for tourists and locals. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025 Conrad Gessner, the sixteenth-century Swiss physician, naturalist, and linguist, and reputedly the first European to describe the guinea pig, the tulip, and the pencil, is also said to be the first to write extensively about the northern bald ibis. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 This sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic substitutes the brother emperors Caracalla and Geta for the original’s Commodus, modeling them not only on him, but on a host of Rome’s other reputedly bloodthirsty despots like Caligula, Nero, and Domitian. Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for reputedly
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Adverb
  • Their simple, powerful design reportedly delivers record-breaking performance, and reaches 178 watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg) and 417 watt-hours per liter (Wh/L) in full pouch cells.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In the years immediately afterward, the two ladies reportedly unfollowed and re-followed one another on Instagram a few times, sparking rumors of bad blood.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The change represents a shift in how OpenAI approaches content restrictions, which the company had loosened in February but then dramatically tightened after an August lawsuit from parents of a teen who died by suicide after allegedly receiving encouragement from ChatGPT.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Police are searching for a 24-year-old man who allegedly fired into a restaurant, injuring two teenagers.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Swift reportedly spends much of her downtime baking and creating loaves to share with friends, family, and, apparently, late-night hosts.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The shock came not just from the announcement itself but from the secrecy surrounding Jane’s relationship — apparently, no one in the family, not even their parents, had known about Aaron.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • An initial headline-grabbing allegation has to do with why Sean Preston and Jayden James were supposedly wary of being around their mother.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • With many scrambling for any information regarding the late crooner’s private cancer battle, a false statement surfaced that was supposedly from Archer.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Tellingly, Yu’s other pup kept a distance throughout, evidently aware that whatever Lily was up to was ill-advised.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Pay-per-view will dominate British television coverage of football Pay-per-view television was all the rage at the turn of the century, and was evidently proving successful in boxing.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • What Perez, above, won’t countenance, seemingly, is ownership of the entire club passing into private hands, like City or PSG.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s announcement that a group of investors led by BlackRock has agreed to buy Aligned Data Centers in a $40 billion deal underscores the seemingly unstoppable flow of money into AI data centers—and comes as its CEO, Larry Fink, pushes back on AI bubble fears.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Republican who ostensibly champions liberty but justifies authoritarian impulses from the White House.
    John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Reputedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reputedly. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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