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Example sentences for: purport

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Laundry Balls/Rings : Strange, hard balls or rings--$30 to $90 apiece--that purport to wash clothes without detergent by means of generating ions, or an undefined substance called "structured water."
Indeed, we leave the LSC program subject to even a greater uncertainty than the one we purport to have eliminated, since other circuits may conclude (as I do) that if the limitation upon welfare representation is unconstitutional, LSC attorneys cannot engage in welfare litigation at all.
The problem lies, of course, among those who make up examinations that purport to judge a person's intelligence or aptitudes on his precise and proper use of words, at bottom a thoroughly idiotic notion, clearly unrelated to being a musical or other artistic or mechanical genius or craftsman.
The monograph does not purport to summarize specialist knowledge.
I deliberately picked systems that purport to pinpoint something intrinsic in our natures.