purportedly

adverb

Definition of purportedlynext
as in allegedly

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Recent Examples of purportedly The area around the strait in the past has seen Iran seize commercial ships and purportedly launch attacks since President Donald Trump first unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers. — Graham Underwood, arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2025 Far from being mere congenial partnerships, most nineteenth- and twentieth-century alliances were complex and multipurpose arrangements used by great powers to restrain, control, and influence other purportedly friendly states. — Nicholas Mulder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025 The nonprofit organization Ziegler founded, Marco Polo, published thousands of Biden's emails, intimate photos, text messages and other documents purportedly from Biden's iPhone backup and cloud storage, according to the lawsuit. — arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025 But those cancellations were purportedly aimed at stripping diversity, equality and inclusiveness elements out of state policies, not at forcing parents to register their newborns in person. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for purportedly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purportedly
  1. supposedly
  2. apparently
  3. reportedly
  4. ostensibly
  5. reputedly
  6. evidently
  7. seemingly
Adverb
  • Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live and the man most single-handedly responsible for O’Brien’s stardom, supposedly hated it.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children's dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing's claims in the flashpoint waterway.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of supposedly
Adverb
  • Unfortunately, the breed is particularly prone to getting overweight, and this tendency apparently is more severe in Labradors purpose-bred for service.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Indeed, Jimmy Kimmel used material from my book to make caustic fun of Trump in a recent monologue — comedy has, apparently, more backbone than news.
    — Michael Wolff, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of apparently
Adverb
  • Daily Mail reportedly spoke to a doctor from Cloudberry who confirmed Betsy contacted their office on Feb. 12.
    — Chris Barilla, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • That tournament reportedly has a deal to take at least two teams each from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East conferences.
    — Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of reportedly
Adverb
  • The future is ostensibly nearer than might be assumed.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The company offers a Pro version that ostensibly provides enhanced capabilities and larger code-generation limits.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of ostensibly
Adverb
  • 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
Definition of reputedly
Adverb
  • Two top lawyers deeply involved in that scheme are no longer at the firm, which Trump is evidently trying to put out of business.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Gentle and generous, and evidently not shy, Reynolds made friends quickly.
    — Karen Chernick, ARTnews.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of evidently
Adverb
  • So if the seemingly changing motions of the heavens could be predicted, maybe earthly events could be, too.
    — James Byrne, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
  • However, the singer and songwriter seemingly paid tribute to Talbott on Valentine’s Day, sharing a photo of the fighter on his social media page.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of seemingly

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