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Recent Examples of reputedly
The tank, introduced in 1980, reputedly performs poorly in rain and fog, and is vulnerable to cheap hobby drones fitted with explosive charges.
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Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Chanel was reputedly a fan of the salon’s hot chocolate and its famous pastry, the Mont-Blanc: meringue topped with a dome of chestnut-purée vermicelli, said to have been inspired by hairstyles of the Belle Époque.
—Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
But pro-Western Prime Minster Edi Rama – at 6 foot, 7 inches, reputedly the world’s tallest leader – is proving up to the task.
—The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2025
Title: Agrippina the Younger—namely, the Roman empress who was the fourth wife of the emperor Claudius and the mother of the next emperor, Nero, who reputedly arranged her assassination.
—Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
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Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Chanel was reputedly a fan of the salon’s hot chocolate and its famous pastry, the Mont-Blanc: meringue topped with a dome of chestnut-purée vermicelli, said to have been inspired by hairstyles of the Belle Époque.
—Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
But pro-Western Prime Minster Edi Rama – at 6 foot, 7 inches, reputedly the world’s tallest leader – is proving up to the task.
—The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2025
Title: Agrippina the Younger—namely, the Roman empress who was the fourth wife of the emperor Claudius and the mother of the next emperor, Nero, who reputedly arranged her assassination.
—Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reputedly
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On the last night that anybody else reportedly saw Nancy, that camera caught a glimpse of a person clad in dark clothes, wearing gloves and a black balaclava, unidentifiable, standing at the threshold.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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Trump has also reportedly weighed the option of sending in ground forces to seize Kharg Island, a major fuel hub that facilitates 90% of Iran’s crude exports.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The Burbank Police Department arrested a woman who allegedly ignited a fire at a local Target last Sunday.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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According to Sadriu, officers learned that Cupe was allegedly assaulting a woman in the park when a bystander intervened in an effort to stop the assault.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2026
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Even at an early age, apparently, the patient had a few small, smooth, normal patches of skin; some had stayed the same size, but others had grown and spread.—
Jerome Groopman,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Granville Suite, once military reception rooms, is named after Christine Granville, rumored lover of Ian Fleming and apparently Churchill’s favorite spy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
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There are six of them, but only two are still in use, and the one where the restaurant was purportedly located is not one of them.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Many of them took the opportunity to clear their name or promote or purportedly launch their own chocolatey treats.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Our military bases in the region, Margaret, right now are supposedly uninhabitable.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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In Huerta’s case, critics just don’t buy how someone who carried Chávez’s torch decades after his death could all of a sudden supposedly turn on him.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Markström, evidently unhappy at Shesterkin pushing Cotter, skated down the ice and asked Shesterkin to fight.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Zuck evidently can’t grow a beard, but Ezra Klein and Senator Chris Murphy have.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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After that, Johnson was seemingly out of the jam, but the pop-up dropped and two more runs scored.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
31 Mar. 2026
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In Tennessee, bills moving through the legislature would allow public schools to refuse to enroll undocumented students, seemingly in violation of Plyer.—
Jenni Fink,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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In January 1979, the shah left Iran, ostensibly to seek cancer treatment.—
Jeffrey Fields,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2026
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Which means your job is ostensibly to try to make people better bosses, right?—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Reputedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reputedly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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