professedly
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One of the most famous took place in 353 A.D. when the artist-scholar Wang Xizhi threw a party for some 40 professedly loner friends at a retreat called the Orchid Pavilion.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
Before founding Circle of Hope in 2006, Boyd Householder worked at nearby Agapé Boarding School, another professedly Christian institution serving parents at wit’s end.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2021
It doesn’t sound much like the professedly collaborative, open-arms approach.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2015
Psychic wounds? -- let's start with facts and numbers, the most immediate being that Woods went majorless in a 2013 season he entered professedly primed to be better than ever.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 13, 2013
It was, unfortunately, a very rough map, professedly nothing more, and was notably wrong in some respects about which we had accurate knowledge.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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