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Example sentences for: purporting

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The story features an anecdote purporting to show how Rehnquist punctures posturing lawyers, in which the pin cushion part is assigned to Kenneth Starr.
Earlier this month, the Democratic Leadership Council released a new poll purporting to show that Democratic voters support the DLC's "centrist" agenda.
The NYT runs a story purporting to cast light on women's post-Monica attitudes towards Bill Clinton, based, it says, on dozens of interviews with "women across the country."
A document purporting to come from the Red Brigades, a guerrilla group thought to have been eliminated, later claimed responsibility for the killing.
The New York Times leads with a new poll purporting to show that most Americans now condemn the Senate for its handing of the impeachment trial, with Republicans taking most of the blame.