as in presumed
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to state as a fact usually forcefully
alleged that the restaurant chain was engaging in discriminatory hiring practices
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Recent Examples of alleged
Mitchell Willetts, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
According to the warrant affidavits, the alleged victim was able to confirm the ring that was preserved belonged to her.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025
Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
After the argument, police alleged that Thompson pulled out a gun and shot several times, hitting Montgomery in the chest and torso before leaving.
—Fox19 Digital Staff, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of the alleged copper thieves is asked to contact investigators at 215-686-3093.
—Mitchell Willetts, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
According to the warrant affidavits, the alleged victim was able to confirm the ring that was preserved belonged to her.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
The charge was dismissed last July after Baldwin's attorneys alleged prosecutors had buried evidence.
—Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
After the argument, police alleged that Thompson pulled out a gun and shot several times, hitting Montgomery in the chest and torso before leaving.
—Fox19 Digital Staff, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleged
Verb
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White and McGregor have insisted the former will return to the Octagon in 2025, but perhaps this fight with Jake or Logan could precede his return to the UFC.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the House, a majority of Democrats voted against the bill after House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted on adding the provision to ban transgender medical care for children.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The problem is the mayor, the supposed guardian of city taxpayers, who apparently can’t say no and who appears to have used the contract talks to buy the manager’s loyalty.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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YouTubers are used to carefully scanning supposed offers to weed out the real ones from the fakes.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
19 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Third Down Conversions Another area where the first-round winners asserted their dominance was on third-down conversions.—
Giovanni Malloy,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the end, Myanmar's reform project did not fail, as some have asserted, but was brutally derailed.—
Derek Mitchell,
NPR,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Proponents of the move say the reserve would act as a hedge against financial instability in a hypothetical future in which cryptocurrencies replace regular money issued by central banks.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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Proponents argued that an investment in Bitcoin would help the government chip away at the $36 trillion national debt, and ensure that the United States remained dominant in a hypothetical future where the global economy runs on cryptocurrencies.—
David Yaffe-Bellany,
New York Times,
7 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Carter’s press secretary Jody Powell contended that journalistic attack dogs foamed at the mouth.—
Amber Roessner / Made by History,
TIME,
29 Dec. 2024
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Attorneys for the city contended that the Municipal Court's recording practices do not violate the state law and that Legal Action of Wisconsin was trying to expand the scope of the law to include recording more hearings than required.—
Alison Dirr,
Journal Sentinel,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The federal government is, in effect, suddenly being run like an A.I. startup; Musk, an unelected billionaire, a maestro of flying cars and trips to Mars, has made the United States of America his grandest test case yet for an unproved and unregulated new technology.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
12 Feb. 2025
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And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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One of the hardest parts of launching a food brand is that retailers often don’t want to take risks on new, unproven products.—
Dave Knox,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Early in the pandemic, Janet Woodcock, then the head of the FDA’s drug center, reportedly sprang into action to prevent widespread distribution of the unproven COVID treatment hydroxychloroquine over the orders of top Trump officials.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Proxima Kosmos launched Saturday featuring a sweeping interactive digital platform, films and a limited-run zine that expands the speculative universe through essays, art and storytelling.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Some commentators don’t like the idea of potentially using taxpayer funds to backstop the price of crypto, a speculative digital asset with limited (some would say nonexistent) underlying value.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Alleged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleged. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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