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Recent Examples of purportedly
Scrim was purportedly spotted all over, some calls more credible than others.
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Rick Rojas, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
The man, who investigators believe was White and around 35 years old, offered Ronnie and his wife a short-term job at a logging camp that would also purportedly provide daycare for their children.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
But we are challenged often in life and my challenge this winter came in the form of an assignment: Dating astrological signs that, purportedly, are terrible for me.
—Maya Layne, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
Now founder Annie Lawless Jacobs is looking to bring the line’s purportedly skin-smoothing capabilities to the complexion category, introducing a foundation that emphasizes both coverage and skin care benefits at once.
—Noor Lobad, WWD, 14 Feb. 2025
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Rick Rojas, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
The man, who investigators believe was White and around 35 years old, offered Ronnie and his wife a short-term job at a logging camp that would also purportedly provide daycare for their children.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
But we are challenged often in life and my challenge this winter came in the form of an assignment: Dating astrological signs that, purportedly, are terrible for me.
—Maya Layne, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
Now founder Annie Lawless Jacobs is looking to bring the line’s purportedly skin-smoothing capabilities to the complexion category, introducing a foundation that emphasizes both coverage and skin care benefits at once.
—Noor Lobad, WWD, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purportedly
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The government responded with an affidavit, supposedly from a prominent general, saying that the land had to be cleared and fenced off for military reasons, to prevent terror attacks.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Nor had the West anticipated that the Houthis in Yemen, a supposedly ragtag militia that had received a large arsenal of missiles from Tehran, would be capable of bringing global shipping in the Red Sea to a near standstill.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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The versatile Chestnut, 56, leads with intellect, charm and six-pack abs as Dr. John Watson, the beloved colleague of the apparently deceased Sherlock Holmes, in CBS' modern series.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Leslie Bibb is Kate, a Texas housewife apparently married to a tycoon.—
Noel Murray,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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The cocktail’s origins reportedly date back to the 1950s when Cinzano, an Italian vermouth producer, opened an outpost in São Paulo and began adding their sweet vermouth to the local cachaça.—
Jillian Dara,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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The alligators and their three dozen other kinds of animal friends use the sewers under the Florida city to travel around the urban environment in peace reportedly.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2025
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Adames also stopped by the Arizona complex after signing his record-setting seven-year, $182 million contract, ostensibly to check out the Giants’ facilities and scope out houses in the Scottsdale area.—
Andrew Baggarly,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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While the premise is ostensibly a tour through the different eras of New York City, the real purpose was to tour the different eras of SNL casts through this big, brassy prism.—
Joe Berkowitz,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
Adverb
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But Vought’s smile and the evidently apolitical nature of the 28 words posted on Facebook and X were anything but normal for progressive alums.—
Mason Laney,
National Review,
15 Feb. 2025
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And Stone, who’s 81 now, evidently couldn’t be cajoled into comment.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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The main characters seemingly walk through the state in Season 5 and stay in Richmond for at least a week.—
Sabrina Moreno,
Axios,
21 Feb. 2025
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Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his late mentor’s family.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Purportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purportedly. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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