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Example sentences for: purporting

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A document purporting to come from the Red Brigades, a guerrilla group thought to have been eliminated, later claimed responsibility for the killing.
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 WSJ and WP each run stories describing a new study purporting to show that the differences between black and white investors are considerable.
The story features an anecdote purporting to show how Rehnquist punctures posturing lawyers, in which the pin cushion part is assigned to Kenneth Starr.
The professor adduces some statistics for his side purporting to show that the availability of concealed weapons lessens the occurrence of what he calls "multiple-victim public shootings."