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Recent Examples of purportedly
While the full text of the order was not posted online on Monday afternoon, the White House website did summarize the underlying philosophy, which is purportedly to shield women.
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2025
On Monday, Crowley received an unsigned letter, purportedly from her own current and former chief officers, echoing claims that had filtered from right-wing commentators and social media as her interviews made the rounds through the national news over the weekend.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
For example, at one point the voice purportedly belonging to Swift shifts into a British accent.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
And so what commenced was effectively oligarchs’ purchasing independent media outlets in bulk and then donating those outlets to a purportedly independent foundation called KESMA, and on the board of KESMA are all of the Fidesz party loyalists.
—Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2025
On Monday, Crowley received an unsigned letter, purportedly from her own current and former chief officers, echoing claims that had filtered from right-wing commentators and social media as her interviews made the rounds through the national news over the weekend.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
For example, at one point the voice purportedly belonging to Swift shifts into a British accent.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
And so what commenced was effectively oligarchs’ purchasing independent media outlets in bulk and then donating those outlets to a purportedly independent foundation called KESMA, and on the board of KESMA are all of the Fidesz party loyalists.
—Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purportedly
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Brügger, who’s made a specialty of exposing corruption, human rights, and law-violating kingpins, sees an opportunity to question the myth of Denmark as the least corrupt country in the world, a welfare state supposedly built on trust.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Sociologists have been perplexed at the scale and stubbornness of the decline in fertility, which does not appear to be materially impacted by various governments' attempts to intervene with supposedly birth-inducing policies like tax credits.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 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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Miller’s apparently been leaning on his new teammate this spring.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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The rapid response team was told that at least half of the agents present reportedly covered their faces during the raid, Sharma-Crawford said.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
8 Feb. 2025
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Celebs like Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston have reportedly gotten the viral salmon sperm facial, while K-beauty brands are cranking out salmon sperm formulas that have TikTokers buzzing.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
8 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
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But Springer played sparingly when the Celtics had their entire core rotation available, and the team evidently determined the financial benefits of trading him outweighed his value as a depth/developmental piece.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
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Given that modest body of work, the signing is evidently a calculated gamble from United’s point of view.—
Jack Lang,
The Athletic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Ever feel like your hair seemingly thinned overnight?—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
9 Feb. 2025
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The proof theatrically is that the production is a rapt and riotous collective with a long list credits all seemingly on the same wildly unpredictable page.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Purportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purportedly. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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