professedly

Example Sentences

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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.

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Russia plays a part: Call it irony, or call it hypocrisy, but activists so professedly dedicated to putting their country first are more than happy to take money from Moscow.

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The resolution would irresponsibly ratify every presidential use of force professedly justified by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force — even those classified and unknown to Congress and the American people.

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At present, experience with state regulation of Internet gambling within their borders does not corroborate the evils the Republican quartet professedly fear.

From Washington Times

Be wary whenever a federal agency issues a professedly benign regulation.

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