Words similar to purported

Example sentences for: purported

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As previously noted, contact sites are purported to have a unique lipid environment that is rich in cardiolipin.
Don Nickles attached to a campaign-finance bill a paycheck-protection amendment that purported to require unions and corporations to get members and stockholders to sign off on political spending.
The expression take down a peg is purported to have originated in a time when peg tankards were in popular use.
It is a relatively new tool based on the Karnofsky Performance Scale and is purported to provide a framework for measuring the progressive decline in palliative care patients.
Last summer, when the U.S. destroyed a purported pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan with cruise missiles, saying that it was in fact making nerve gas for Osama bin Laden, the NYT quickly raised doubts about the government's account of the facility.