purported
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Reuters first reported the hack on Patel’s Gmail, though they could not independently verify the leaked information, including Patel’s purported resume and personal pictures of him.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
Senior coroner Mutch added the "purported expertise" of untrained people posed a risk to all children where those unregulated services were used.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
“To have purported agents, gentleman in street clothes, executing an arrest, failing to identify themselves, not having previously announced themselves and asking the judge’s permission to take action in the courtroom is extraordinary,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
This purported to lift up former enslaved people, but the results were very mixed for other groups that were not white.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026
Some of the reluctance may be a holdover from a long- dormant intellectual battle in which academics and activists squared off about the purported Haudenosaunee role in the U.S.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
