This letter purports to be his resignation.
Source: tatoeba (58673)
Purports
Synonyms for "purports" (125 found)
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postulatedpractical consequencepresupposedpresuppositionpretendpretendedpretextprofessprofessedprojectproposeprotest too muchpurportedpurposerange of meaningreal meaningreferencereferentrelationrelevance
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reputedresolverumoredscopesemantic clustersemantic fieldsenseshortsignificancesignificancysignificationsignificatumsignifiesignifyso-calledspan of meaningspeculativespiritstrengthstructural meaningsubstancesumsum and substancesupposedsuppositionalsuppositivesuspectedsymbolic meaningtenortheoreticalthinkthrusttotality of associationstransferred meaningunadorned meaningunderstandingundertoneupshotvalue
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The legislation, which parliament is expected to approve by year's end, comes on the heels of the Indigenization and Economic Empowerment bill, which purports to give black Zimbabweans a controlling stake in domestic and foreign-owned firms.
Source: tatoeba (12007423)
The website full of "receipts" does not show what it purports to, and is in fact riddled with mistakes.
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