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Example sentences for: purports

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One of them — Splendid China — purports to show “all of China in one day. ”
But like so many protest movements, it partakes of the very vices it purports to critique.
The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.
The Getty Conservation Institute in California recently sponsored a virtual-reality recreation of Queen Nefertari's tomb in Egypt, which purports to let cyberexplorers "look at the 3200-year-old wall paintings ...
The spot purports to detail the Clinton tax increase--with a newspaper headline.