supposedly
Example Sentences
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The deployments, supposedly to fight crime surges, has been met with extreme resistance in the courts and on the streets.
From Salon
“The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy,” he supposedly once observed, “is that Onassis probably wouldn’t have married Mrs. Khrushchev.”
Previous military ruler Ne Win changed the rules of the road, requiring vehicles to swap driving lanes -- supposedly the result of misconstrued astrological advice to shift his left-wing regime to the political right.
From Barron's
Writing about the U.N. deliberations on Iraq, Will gushed over Secretary of State Colin Powell’s supposedly sober, masterly and “unhistrionic” presentation.
From Salon
It doesn’t make sense to divide finance into one set of seemingly safe activities that we call banking and another set of other supposedly risky activities.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
