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PURPORTEDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purportedly mean?
• PURPORTEDLY (adverb)
The adverb PURPORTEDLY has 1 sense:
1. believed or reputed to be the case
Familiarity information: PURPORTEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Believed or reputed to be the case
Synonyms:
purportedly; supposedly
Context examples
UC-781 is a potent inhibitor of reverse transcriptase-dependent pyrophosphorolysis, and purportedly restores the chain-terminating activity of zidovudine (AZT) against AZT-resistant virus.
(N-(4-Chloro-3-((3-Methyl-2-Butenyl)Oxy)Phenyl)-2-Methyl-3-Furancarbothioamide, NCI Thesaurus)
Purportedly extinct creatures were actually roaming around the Karoo hundreds of thousands of years later than the time scientists had written them off.
(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)
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