supposedly
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At one point, the mayor even compared street taco vendors to homeless encampments, with both supposedly disrupting the fabric of a well-run city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
They have had four different managers in recent seasons and all of them left the club quickly, poached away to supposedly bigger things, only to fail.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
This is a remix of the lecture supposedly spoiled millennials, who refused to sacrifice every small pleasure on the altar of homeownership, heard for years about $7 lattes.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Moving to Singapore -- a playbook sometimes dubbed "Singapore-washing" -- can help Chinese startups tap international capital and overseas users, supposedly at a distance from Beijing's legal and political reach.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
A stone with a hole straight through it that is supposedly lucky.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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