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Example sentences for: purporting

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The lumber-byproduct media have reported with glee a study out of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh purporting to show that spending time on the Internet tends to make people more lonely and depressed.
Closer inspection of the illustration accompanying the piece, purporting to be of Clinton's schedule for one week in June 1996, reveals that it is deeply deceptive.
The man sent out email and posted online ads purporting to be from the woman suggesting she desired to act out fantasies of being raped.
Finkelstein's reputation rests on his refutation of Joan Peters' 1984 From Time Immemorial , a book purporting to prove Palestinian Arabs had no claims on the land that is now Israel, having been drawn to it only by reports that Jews were making the desert bloom.
The Los Angeles Times lead is a poll putting George W. Bush first among Republican voters and Elizabeth Dole second, and purporting to show that each right now would beat Al Gore.