purportedly
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Proceeds from the loans made by the insurers passed through entities purportedly controlled by each of these firms before being used to fund other Walter-linked businesses, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
All of the regimens surrounding Maddie and her illness are purportedly designed to be easily accessible for healthy, honest living.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
AI models on benchmarks — despite being purportedly far cheaper to train.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
After widespread press coverage of an incident when his dog killed one of the Queen's geese in St James's Park, Hattersley produced Buster's Diaries, purportedly written by the animal itself.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
From then on he scrupulously avoided contacting either his parents or Carine, the sister for whom he purportedly cared immensely.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing purportedly
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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