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purportedly

adverb as in allegedly

adverb as in supposedly

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She posted a cease-and-desist letter she purportedly emailed to Renner on Instagram asking him to stop “any form of verbal abuse, yelling or intimidation.”

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Undeterred, Israel’s adversaries have evaded this mere technicality by allowing the Palestinian Authority to accede to the ICC treaty as a “state,” thereby conferring jurisdiction over crimes purportedly committed in the Gaza Strip.

Videos published on social media purported to show helicopters flying over Pokrovsk, while another purportedly taken by a Russian drone showed figures scrambling from a helicopter that had landed in a field.

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He noted that the purportedly incriminating funding that NGOs were alleged to have received was already subject to systematic monitoring by the central bank.

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Stablecoin, the purportedly “safer” version of cryptocurrency, is having its moment.

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

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