supposedly
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Imagine you get a call supposedly from your bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
This is the supposedly pristine island that Ivanka had hiked up barefoot.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
He complained about Canadian banking laws and told a garbled story about some friend of his who supposedly couldn’t buy a Gulfstream jet in Canada.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
In total, those accounted for 103,000 of the 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs supposedly added in August, or nearly two-thirds of the total.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Even the scandalous news that her supposedly grieving mother-in-law seemed to be on the brink of remarriage did not force a peep from the precariously balanced Lady Constance.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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