purport
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Avoid those who purport to guarantee the IRS will pay.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Portfolio manager Matthew Tuttle says he was inspired to create the fund by videos that purport to show alien spacecraft moving across the skies in anomalous ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Nor did the Supreme Court in Kennedy purport to overturn every decision that relied on Lemon; to the contrary, it expressly acknowledged and distinguished several such cases as good law.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
With such vividly realized characters, the Coens portray a truth far larger than the crimes they purport to retell.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
I did not hear of this charade until the next day, and did not understand its purport; rather thinking it a pleasant interlude from the more brutal games of the Sons of Liberty.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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