reputedly
Example Sentences
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Local resident Ian Bishop, described by Miller as a “man of mystery,” reputedly uses water from his well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson was reputedly among the legendary escapologist's greatest inspirations.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
There is the scary modernist Schoenberg — inventor of the 12-tone system, replacing traditional harmony with the democratic notion that all notes are equal — who reputedly drives audiences away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
Of the roughly 20 million books in Harvard University’s libraries, one has long exerted a unique dark fascination, not for its contents, but for the material it was reputedly bound in: human skin.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
“A sure sign of changing times,” Mr. Chatterjee reputedly admitted from his balcony.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
