Synonyms for purportedly
pur·port·ed·ly

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1. purportedly, supposedlyadverb

   believed or reputed to be the case

   Synonyms:
   supposedly

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1. List of paraphrases for "purportedly":

   allegedly, supposedly, reportedly, ostensibly

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1. Bob Corker:

   We're in a strange place, it's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it ? It's not a good place for any party to have a cult-like situation as it relates to a President that happens to be purportedly of the same party.

2. Ross Garber:

   Under Donald Trump, it was almost impossible to tell who was purportedly working on behalf of the government and who was working for Trump personally. That has significant consequences.

3. Bob Corker:

   We're in a strange place. It's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it ? it's not a good place for any party to have a cult-like situation as it relates to a President that happens to be purportedly of the same party.

4. Rick Hasen:

   They're no longer really democratic, although they still purportedly hold elections. And now three of the four largest democracies in the world -- India, Brazil, United States -- have been governed by autocrats in recent years.

5. Scott Gottlieb:

   When a consumer goes online to buy medicines purportedly from Canada, they may get a medicine sourced from elsewhere that could be counterfeit, expired or misbranded. While operations or illegal online pharmacies may state on their websites that its medicines are coming from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, etc., this is not necessarily always the case, such operations and illegal online pharmacies take advantage of unsuspecting Americans by purporting to distribute safe and effective imported drugs, at least some of which are instead expired, mislabeled, subject to recalls or potentially counterfeit and that are provided outside of the closed American distribution system meant to protect patient safety.