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purported

/per-pawr-tid/US // pərˈpɔr tɪd //UK // (pɜːˈpɔːtɪd) //

所谓的,声称的,据称的,所称的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.

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Examples

  • That includes Tim Booyer, 57, a welder who had fretted for months about worrisome Facebook posts detailing the vaccines’ purported side effects.

  • In an Instagram post on May 12, the university’s Campus Dining division disputed a purported claim by the Chick fil-A that the company would be opening an on campus outlet.

  • It’s emotion-laundering, retrofitting a structure of purported analysis and evidence onto which those nonrational assessments can be hung.

  • This last group also got a pamphlet explaining the purported evidence supporting this oil to further entice them to believe it would work.

  • It includes a lengthy list of complicated-looking data scrolling rapidly over the screen, the analyst himself — his face blurred — and a table of information about the points of origin of the purported hacks.

  • The dollar value of a statistical life in the United States is purported to be around $5 million.

  • They are also claiming that the purported siblings are not actually related.

  • One purported ISIS fighter from Canada praised Rouleau and encouraged others to follow suit with violence.

  • The account-holder purported to be Syrian expats living in Australia, like Susli.

  • No matter the name, the purported “anomalous primate” has long been the subject of a cycle of stories and skepticism.

  • Mechem says that if at the time of signing, the person doing so purported to act as agent, the act might be ratified.

  • Then, settling back with what purported to be a sigh of bliss, he regarded Marie sitting small and still and listless beside him.

  • The plotters knew very well what he would do if he should get a wire which purported to be your resignation.

  • My business purported to be buying up butter and eggs, at the farm-houses, for the rebel army.

  • To Frulein Dollmann the wreck-works were evidently what they purported to be, and nothing more.