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Example sentences for: purported

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Any help should come from the taxpayers at large, not from the purported victims of smoking that the settlement is supposed to compensate.
The other purported physical evidence of a relationship--the tapes of Clinton talking to Lewinsky's answering machine--reportedly are innocuous.
An article calls purported moderate George W. Bush a closet conservative.
The various purported acronymic origins are still the first thing most people think of; we will be expanding our treatment of this, and including the first known appearance of an acronymic etymology (in New York's underground paper The East Village Other), in 1967.
Specifically, on Tuesday, the Web site for Toobin's book promises "the complete and unexpurgated depositions of Paula Jones and Bill Clinton," a "secretly recorded interview with Juanita Broaddrick" [who claims Clinton sexually assaulted her], and--most dignified of all--"the complete text of the affidavit in which Paula Jones identifies purported 'distinguishing characteristics' of the President."