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Example sentences for: purported

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To begin with, the purported contrast between the blinkered maxims of economic theory and the penetrating insights of Kuttner's common sense is a fraud.
The expression take down a peg is purported to have originated in a time when peg tankards were in popular use.
Cohen is infuriated by this purported tendency to suppress the gangster past and is even more angered by attempts to make light of it.
These serious discrepancies led us to reexamine several experimental aspects of the 13C-NMR studies and the implications of their purported low pK
But it still all seems a bit odd, since the purported bear market lasted only a few weeks, and was founded on nothing more than overwrought concerns about inflation and a sudden advent of panic about Y2K.