Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb By report; supposedly.
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- adverb according to reports or other information
Etymologies
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Examples
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No specific date was given related to his departure, though his term reportedly ends in May.
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When this young woman walks down the street, well-off men, very normal men, in their 50s, stop and make fun of her, saying 'Bunga, bunga,' a term reportedly describing sexually charged dancing at Berlusconi's villa.
Berlusconi Sex Trial Adjourned Shortly After Beginning (VIDEO) 2011
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That was the term reportedly hurled by Chinese students during violent protests against Africans on Chinese campuses in the lead-up to the pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square twenty years ago.
Phillip Martin: The Stain on China's Pro-Democracy Movement: A Final Word About Tiananmen 2010
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That was the term reportedly hurled by Chinese students during violent protests against Africans on Chinese campuses in the lead-up to the pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square twenty years ago.
Phillip Martin: The Stain on China's Pro-Democracy Movement: A Final Word About Tiananmen Phillip Martin 2010
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That was the term reportedly hurled by Chinese students during violent protests against Africans on Chinese campuses in the lead-up to the pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square twenty years ago.
The Stain on China's Pro-Democracy Movement: A Final Word About Tiananmen 2010
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That was the term reportedly hurled by Chinese students during violent protests against Africans on Chinese campuses in the lead-up to the pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square twenty years ago.
Phillip Martin: The Stain on China's Pro-Democracy Movement: A Final Word About Tiananmen 2009
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The Hoyt observation is also significant in that the alias reportedly used by the alleged Jesse, “Mr. Howard,” shows up as one of the seventy-two aliases listed in Jesse James Was One of His Names.37 In addition to Charles Howard, John Davis Howard, and Col.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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"Frequent flyers" is a phrase reportedly used by some GPs to refer to regular visitors to their surgeries.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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But "Shard" is the name that stuck, a name reportedly coined by Piano after criticism from the group English Heritage that his design resembled a "shard of glass."
Ars Technica Ars Staff 2011
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The title reportedly referred to T. I.'s return to writing his lyrics, but it sounds like a play on his legal troubles.
PopMatters 2009
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