as in allegedly
according to what has been said
—used to indicate what has been said or reported
The medication's side effects are reportedly few and mild. They reportedly stole one million dollars.
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Recent Examples of reportedly
The corporal, while on duty in his marked patrol car, reportedly encountered the girl on North Avenue in front of Coppin.
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Keith Daniels, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
The 400-foot monstrosity, reportedly worth $360 million, has captured the attention of NFL fans in New Orleans, a city that certainly doesn’t lack attractions of its own.
—Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
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
Amazon reportedly paid $150 million for that game after turning down the option to grab a 2023 postseason contest (which Peacock ultimately streamed).
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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Keith Daniels, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
The 400-foot monstrosity, reportedly worth $360 million, has captured the attention of NFL fans in New Orleans, a city that certainly doesn’t lack attractions of its own.
—Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
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
Amazon reportedly paid $150 million for that game after turning down the option to grab a 2023 postseason contest (which Peacock ultimately streamed).
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reportedly
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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
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Split evenly across America, Jaclyn lives in Los Angeles (of course) with her hot actor hubby, Kate’s in Austin, Texas to raise her own purportedly idyllic family, and Laurie is the resident New Yorker, divorcee, and heavy-drinker.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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In the Burrow case, the suspects allegedly carried bogus ID cards purportedly from Argentina and other countries, and bearing false names, according to the affidavit.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
11 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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The property up for sale includes the ground-floor restaurant and kitchen — including, evidently, all appliances and decor — plus a private event space, offices and an additional 10,000 or so square feet of basement space.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2025
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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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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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“Reportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reportedly. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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