Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Assumed to be such; supposed: the purported author of the story.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Supposed, or assumed to be.
- adj. Normally assumed to be.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of purport.
Etymologies
Examples
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Fisher describes the union's offer as a bailout to cover what he labelled "purported losses" by the league that have "never been proven."
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The country McCain purported to put first has a more difficult path due to his ambition.
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Indian head $2.50, $5.00 and $10 denominations and, of course, the coins purported to have been fished up from the Gulf of Mexico.
NCS Conserves Coins Recovered from the Steamship New York : Coin Collecting News
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Prosecutors in Honduras say a decomposed, bullet-riddled body found near the border with Nicaragua has been identified as the purported leader of a shadowy Nicaraguan resistance group.
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Fact is, Solenska is very flirtatious with her students ( "the handsome Antoine," she calls her purported young beau).
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Thus, the story is not necessarily what was in the lead paragraph, namely the purported news that the offensive is not immediately bearing fruit.
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Rather, the complaints argue against an unprecedented expansion of the interstate commerce power: namely the purported power to force an individual to purchase a product he does not want to purchase, and an unprecedented use the tax code to punish someone for choosing not to purchase a product.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Democratic Strategist misdescribes some legal issues
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It's hard for me to buy the "freedom of speech" premise when the Focus on the Family spot comes with a price tag purported to be between $2.4 million and $2.8 million.
Marcia G. Yerman: The Super Bowl Slippery Slope: Advertising and Free Speech
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TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, according to the criminal complaint, they are described as purported to be American, or naturalized Americans.
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The message posted under Shapps 'name purported to come from a Lib Dem activist and said that the Liberal Democrats had no chance of winning.
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