Synonym: purportedly. Similar words: suppose, opposed, supposing, oppose, proposed, allegedly, repeatedly, reportedly. Meaning: [səˈpəʊzɪdlɪ] adv. believed or reputed to be the case.
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211. Japanese cockroaches are smaller in size and supposedly taste quite crispy.
212. Companies arguably fired workers too aggressively this time, but they show little inclination to rehire, even though the recession has supposedly been over for five months now.
213. One of his seminal articles in this period was published in a book in honor of Mises — that supposedly washed-up old man who just so happened to have a penchant for speaking truth to power.
214. These companies, cut off from bank loans at reasonable rates of interest, had turned instead to supposedly usurious moneylenders, known as the curb market.
215. But then I found in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang a very similar entry supposedly dating from the 1980s in Britain.
216. Owners of the breed have included Queen Victoria, King George IV and Genghis Khan who supposedly took 30,000 of the dogs with his army in his bid to conquer Western Europe.
217. Everybody has heard of Bigfoot, the gigantic ape-like creature that supposedly haunts the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
218. One, fubar supposedly standing for "fu**ed up beyond all recognition" actually has made it into the OED along with snafu.
219. If you're one of the saved, blessed, or otherwise enlightened individuals who stumbled upon the one true belief system,(sentencedict.com) then supposedly everyone else remains in the dark.
220. The group, based in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania, used the social networking sites to promote top picks in penny stocks, supposedly based on their own expertise and independent research.
221. This family has been widely publicised as suffering primarily from a defect in the use of grammatical suffixation rules, thus supposedly supporting the existence of genes specific to grammar.
222. All those who had supposedly been her equals and superiors now smiled the smile of sociability, as much as to say: "How friendly we have always been."
223. Okay, Snickers is about 280 calories a bar but my favorite granola bar (supposedly packed with protein) is 320 calories.
224. An American money-market fund, supposedly the safest of safe investments, this week became the first since 1994 to report a loss.
225. In the Spring of 2006, the Fed stopped publishing official M3 numbers to supposedly "save money".
226. Mass culture is supposedly a leveler and globalizer - by definition, we all share mass cultural references.
227. But the normative implication of this argument is that policymakers should be indifferent because, by this supposedly all-encompassing measure of welfare, we are no worse off than we were before.
228. Henry, who was supposedly retired, also retched at the idea.
229. Then Manuel Marulanda , the FARC's founder and undisputed leader , died, supposedly of a heart attack.
230. But policy proposals offer a window into candidates' political souls — a much better window, if you ask me, than a bunch of supposedly revealing anecdotes and out-of-context quotes.
231. An enormous 22, 000 hectares of this area has been leased by a Swedish company, SEKAB, for the production of ethanol for Sweden, supposedly to make Sweden more 'eco-friendly'.
232. It said many of the current supposedly protected ecosystems were mere "paper parks" that lacked any means to stop logging and hunting.
233. He urged people to ignore the violence when he voted at a Kabul high school, dipping his index finger in the supposedly indelible ink and holding it up for the cameras.
234. But as Sam Goldwyn supposedly said: "Don't pay any attention to the critics;don't even ignore them.
235. For several consecutive Fridays after that, she stated she was experiencing the Passion of Christ, supposedly suffering in her own body along with all his historic agonies.
236. The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II supposedly created the terraced gardens around 600 B.C. at his royal palace in the Mesopotamian desert.
237. From whence did Halloween, this peculiar and supposedly all-American holiday, derive?
238. Both are larger and supposedly more upscale than compact cars BYD has focused on since they entered the car business in 2003 when it took over a small car maker in Xian.
239. ECM burst, both normal and remote, no longer affects ships supposedly immune to Electronic Warfare.
240. Guangdong province changed the gray-green uniforms to a supposedly more inviting blue.
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