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Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.

The purported director of the film is still unknown.

Sami is not the squeaky clean churchgoer that he purported to be.

Scientists are putting an herbal remedy from Madagascar, purported to cure COVID-19, to the test.

This extension purported to warn users about questionable websites.

If a hotelier touts an unproven or dangerous medicine, or if a film actor sells polished stones or scented candles with purported health benefits, these are examples of a kind of informal fallacy called an "appeal to authority".

A number of purported grassroots movements are really astroturfing campaigns by the ultra-wealthy.

The account purported to be located in the United States.

Adaptogens are used in herbal medicine for the purported stabilization of physiological processes and promotion of homeostasis.

In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.