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to state as a fact usually forcefully
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Recent Examples of alleged
Dean Pan, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
The department also launched an election threats task force in 2021 to assess alleged threats against election workers.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
After the argument, police alleged that Thompson pulled out a gun and shot several times, hitting Montgomery in the chest and torso before leaving.
—Fox19 Digital Staff, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003, while Osama bin Laden, whose Al Qaeda terrorist group planned the attacks, was killed there by U.S. forces in 2011.
—Dean Pan, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
The department also launched an election threats task force in 2021 to assess alleged threats against election workers.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
The charge was dismissed last July after Baldwin's attorneys alleged prosecutors had buried evidence.
—Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
After the argument, police alleged that Thompson pulled out a gun and shot several times, hitting Montgomery in the chest and torso before leaving.
—Fox19 Digital Staff, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleged
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White and McGregor have insisted the former will return to the Octagon in 2025, but perhaps this fight with Jake or Logan could precede his return to the UFC.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the House, a majority of Democrats voted against the bill after House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted on adding the provision to ban transgender medical care for children.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Dec. 2024
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These were accompanied by supposed paper records confirming it to be thorium and uranium.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 Jan. 2025
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His supposed final chapter with the Jets would end with one year lost to injury and then a four- or five-win season.—
Chris Branch,
The Athletic,
2 Jan. 2025
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Third Down Conversions Another area where the first-round winners asserted their dominance was on third-down conversions.—
Giovanni Malloy,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the end, Myanmar's reform project did not fail, as some have asserted, but was brutally derailed.—
Derek Mitchell,
NPR,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Kuzma was posed that hypothetical Sunday night, after the loss to the Kings.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The vast majority of cosmologists believe all of these phenomena can be explained through the presence of dark matter, a hypothetical form of matter that is massive, electrically neutral and hardly, if ever, interacts with normal matter.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Carter’s press secretary Jody Powell contended that journalistic attack dogs foamed at the mouth.—
Amber Roessner / Made by History,
TIME,
29 Dec. 2024
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Attorneys for the city contended that the Municipal Court's recording practices do not violate the state law and that Legal Action of Wisconsin was trying to expand the scope of the law to include recording more hearings than required.—
Alison Dirr,
Journal Sentinel,
27 Dec. 2024
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And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
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During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.—
Patrik Jonsson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Many desperate families come forward with unproven remedies, and we were grouped in with them—just another set of parents believing in a miracle cure.—
Chase Malackowski,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
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Stock plummeted ~50% after NVIDIA’s CEO stressed quantum’s 20-year horizon, illustrating risk in overpaying for unproven near-term earnings.—
GuruFocus,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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The two sides will stop fighting for 42 days, with the aim (again, speculative) of making that cease-fire permanent and ending the war.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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The funding was made by California Jobs First as part of a larger pool of $600 million created by the state in 2021 to help create jobs and prevent a wave of property acquisitions by speculative investors.—
Pat Maio,
Orange County Register,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Alleged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleged. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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