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Recent Examples of purportedly
And, since the ash purportedly carried no real danger, most of the 900 men and women who took jobs to help clean up the site did not receive dust masks or other respiratory protection, though many asked for it.
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Jared Sullivan, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Surrounded by usually dusty plains and dairy farms, Roswell isn’t famous for any notable rainfall but rather for being the spot where a spacecraft purportedly crashed in 1947.
—Walter Berry and Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
Making the Band purportedly offered the young women a clear, albeit grueling, path to stardom.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
In a March 2024 study of the effects of Russian propaganda, Filter Labs showed that to make up for this, state media gave lavish attention to new medical investments that the government was purportedly making and how Russian medical companies were overcoming Western sanctions.
—Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
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Jared Sullivan, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Surrounded by usually dusty plains and dairy farms, Roswell isn’t famous for any notable rainfall but rather for being the spot where a spacecraft purportedly crashed in 1947.
—Walter Berry and Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
Making the Band purportedly offered the young women a clear, albeit grueling, path to stardom.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
In a March 2024 study of the effects of Russian propaganda, Filter Labs showed that to make up for this, state media gave lavish attention to new medical investments that the government was purportedly making and how Russian medical companies were overcoming Western sanctions.
—Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purportedly
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Scott, the old pro, knows how to give these scenes a vicious vitality that overcomes any thoughts about how the Romans supposedly got live sharks in the water.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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In a race supposedly too close to call, the surprise wasn't that Trump won, which was always an obvious possibility, but how quickly the results took shape — this was supposed to take days, remember.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
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Miyagi-Do’s opponents this time are Dublin Thunder, apparently a dojo full of Irish stereotypes (complimentary).Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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Little about the house changed, but workers did apparently fix the roof, per spies on the Brooklyn Heights Blog.Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2024
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His wife and widow, Baby Doe Tabor, was equally famous, having lured Horace Tabor away from his first wife with her reportedly unmatched beauty.James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
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The friend, an Argentinian businessman, reportedly posed as Payne’s business manager but was not.Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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But even his newest series, Landman, which is ostensibly about the oil business in southwest Texas, features Mexican cartels and inconvenient cadavers.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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Irvine City Council positions are ostensibly nonpartisan offices, but Park and Liu approach the dais from starkly different political backgrounds.Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 8 Nov. 2024
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His stepmother was a Swanson, an heir to the frozen-dinner fortune; his father was an ambassador under Ronald Reagan (and reputedly had ties to the C.I.A.).Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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The tether stablecoin, a cryptocurrency designed to maintain parity with the US dollar and reputedly backed by dollar reserves (although there are questions regarding the composition of those reserves) has lost its peg and at the time of writing trades for 99 cents a unit.Gian M. Volpicelli, WIRED, 17 June 2022
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His good friend, director Sacha Gervasi, and podcast host Rich Roll evidently think so.Peter White, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Some stations evidently weren’t happy about running the ad.Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
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Heading into the second half of a season where seemingly nothing has gone right, the 49ers are doubling down.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Wisconsin polling locations received non-credible bomb threats on Tuesday that seemingly originated from Russian email domains, Caroline Clancy, public affairs officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Milwaukee, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Purportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purportedly. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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