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How to use purported in a sentence

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The estate created by the tenancy is unassignable, because a purported assignment terminates it as soon as it comes to the notice of the owner.
As the attention to human rights has increased, so has the criticism, directed particularly at their purported universalism.
The purported codicological structure of the volume seems highly dubious for a formal fifteenth-century manuscript.
A constable had purported to arrest a person for obstruction, an offence which did not carry any power of arrest.
Alternatively, the strict constructionist approach does not look to whether the purported credit offer is of sufficient value to the consumer.
Specifically, I am referring to an act that purported to be a pair of conjoined twins who aspire to be opera singers.
Paradoxically, it drove people to take the law into their own hands more than ever before defeating the purported objective behind the law.
They then purported to exchange contracts with the winner of that race on behalf of both claimant and defendant.
At the heart of the fleshy fruit, snug within its stony kernel, lies a bitter seed that is purported to hold miraculous anti-tumour properties.
For example, he tells of art experts who examine a purported 6th century B.C. Greek kouros statue and instinctively know it's a fake.
He talked at one point about perceived problems of gender or a purported gender gap.
Despite living in a homeless shelter, he flashed wads of cash and frequently took airplane trips on purported business.
An enquiry would have revealed that the man who opened the account was not the person he purported to be.
When the justices purported to commit the appellant on these informations, they were doing something which in law they had no power to do.
Here, the document in question purported to say that the writer had received the relevant credit note and had given it his full endorsement.
Another purported fat melter is collagenase, an enzyme that breaks down connective tissue.
Gene duplication is purported to be a major pathway for the Darwinian evolution of biochemical novelty.
Finally, regardless of who ultimately holds the keys to scientific knowledge, what happens to nature, the oft purported object of science?
Despite their purported focus on the digital, many of the books written by a single author focused on pre-digital media.
If I do not believe my Elders and betters, those who are purported to be most wise, then who is there left to believe?
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Examples from Classical Literature
The covenant for seisin was an assurance to the grantee that the grantor had the estate which he purported to convey.
But this present case was, or purported to be, a case of a second recapture.
Sometimes he was entranced and the trance-utterance purported to be that of a discarnate spirit.
This is uninterestingly true of law that is not even purported to be the interpretation of a legal text, like traditional common law.
The note, written in pencil, purported to be from Joseph Jenkins.
It purported to be given only a few days after the trial had taken place.
It bore the London post-mark, and purported to be from Harriet.
The letter purported to be an excuse for the writer's own defalcation.
Oral information came from purported eyewitnesses, but that was unreliable and uncheckable.
In a call to Planned Parenthood of Idaho, director of development Autumn Kersey spoke to the purported donor, The Advocate reported.
There now took place what purported to be a grand reconciliation.
This date was chosen in honor of the birthday in 1718 of John Montagu, the fourht Earl of Sandwich, and the purported inventor of the sandwich as fast food.
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