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as in intended
to have in mind as a purpose or goal
do you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday?
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as in alleged
to state as a fact usually forcefully
he purports to be an expert in criminalistics
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Recent Examples of purported
Prem Thakker,
The New Republic,
13 Jan. 2023
There is nothing in the study that links sweeteners to any purported spike in sudden deaths or heart attacks.
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Chris Mueller,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2023
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
One slide purported to show the emissions from various sources.
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Alex Cuadros,
ProPublica,
16 June 2026
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That Hochul had many other options and still chose LaSalle shows either a lack of conviction in her purported beliefs or severe political ineptitude.
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Prem Thakker,
The New Republic,
13 Jan. 2023
There is nothing in the study that links sweeteners to any purported spike in sudden deaths or heart attacks.
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Chris Mueller,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2023
Verb
This week, the State of California and the California Public Utilities Commission sent a letter to the FCC, asking the agency to reject AT&T’s requests, or at least remove them from streamlined processing, and order the utility to address purported deficiencies in its plan.
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Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
One slide purported to show the emissions from various sources.
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Alex Cuadros,
ProPublica,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purported
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China has ratcheted up pressure on Tokyo after comments by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in November that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo, which drew criticism from Beijing.
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The workshop’s facilitators posed a series of hypothetical adversarial actions, or vignettes, to the participants.
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Those drums did not stop once over the course of a 90-minute match, even though the team they were intended to support not only did not score but did not come particularly close.
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The letter did not explain the pause, but suggested it may have been intended to preserve evidence.
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The complaint alleged deceptive advertising and other misconduct.
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The court of appeal further ruled Guild had sufficiently alleged CCM had aided, and benefited from, then-Guild branch manager Christopher Flowers’s breach of his fiduciary duty to Guild.
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The first two questions are too hypothetical and conjectural.
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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.
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Nunez said investigators planned to interview an employee who was working at the business when the blaze began.
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Following the exercise, the Royal Navy capability team and the Air and Space Warfare Centre began analyzing the results, with additional testing potentially planned aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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The Dodgers claimed a series win in the four-game home set against their division rival, with the chance to sweep Sunday.
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Russia meanwhile has claimed that its forces now control the important town of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
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Slave owners insisted that human bondage fulfilled God’s will.
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Even with some international teams packing up to go home, Rodríguez late Thursday insisted that the government was not winding down rescue efforts.
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“Purported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purported. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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