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allegedly

[uh-lej-id-lee] / əˈlɛdʒ ɪd li /


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While in Lebanon he allegedly made contact with several individuals he believed were members of IS.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

A teenager charged over a small boat Channel crossing was allegedly piloting a "mega dinghy" carrying a record 165 migrants from France to England, the National Crime Agency has said.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Add into the mix announcements that Chinese AI rivals have new, free models, allegedly built off the learnings of the expensive ones developed by the likes of Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Evidence surfaced in court documents submitted in Roh’s divorce that her father had allegedly spent some of the money on clandestine payments to SK.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

According to Jamie Lincoln Kitman, writing in The Nation in 2000, Ethyl executives allegedly offered to endow a chair at Caltech "if Patterson was sent packing."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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