purported
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The purported donors were reporters working for Verbatim, an organization founded by journalists from the Center for Climate Reporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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 purported poll by Median Strategies, reported in the California Post and touted on social media by Mayor Bass last week, was later exposed as a sham by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
