purportedly

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Surprising events and negative news can always tempt investors into suddenly adopting radically different strategies: fast trading, market timing, ultrahigh dividends and other techniques that purportedly reduce risk or raise return.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Unverified night-time footage has emerged purportedly showing the ship ablaze after the attack on Tuesday.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

It dug into the fraud that purportedly precedes the fleecing of U.S. antipoverty programs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The DOJ filed the suit the day after purportedly soliciting Moncla’s materials, the activists said.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2026

The Adams team, then, was charging Jefferson with two serious offenses against the unwritten code of political honor purportedly binding on the leadership class of the revolutionary generation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis