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Pictures purporting to show him with such a weapon actually show him carrying a "camera tripod", he said.

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He wrote what he thought “each speaker is most likely to have needed to say” within “the overall purport of the speech as actually delivered.”

When England toured Australia later that year, captain Ivo Bligh was given a small terracotta urn purported to contain the ashes of a burnt wooden bail.

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That exchange came four months after the purported "right of reply" email from the Mail on Sunday on 4 March 2011.

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“If a lapse was not valid, the policy may have remained in force, requiring the benefits be paid to the beneficiary if the insured died after the purported lapse.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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