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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.
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 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.
includes a study purporting to show that in the major gambling cities of the U.S.--Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Reno--the suicide rates are up to four times higher than in comparably sized cities where gambling is not legal.
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.