purported
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By requiring nonprofits to disclose only whether someone on staff has been found liable for wrongdoing, the purported regulation under consideration only hooks onto individuals’ conduct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Footage on social media also purported to show a diplomatic motorcade travelling through Moscow.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
He said he was lured with an invitation to a purported meeting called by Rocha.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Times first contacted Median Strategies last week, seeking more details about the purported poll it claimed showed Bass leading Raman by 12 percentage points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
For it purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws—in effect, to discipline a truly continental union—while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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