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What is another word for purports?

Pronunciation: [pɜːpˈɔːts] (IPA)

Purports is a versatile word that can be used in various settings, including academic, legal, and corporate environments. Some synonyms for purports include claims, alleges, suggests, states, maintains, asserts, and declares. Each of these words offers a slightly different connotation, but they all share a similar meaning of presenting information or an idea as true or valid. Other synonyms for purports include implies, insinuates, infers, and conveys, which suggest that there may be an underlying message or implication. Regardless of the synonym used, the speaker or writer is making a statement that should be supported by evidence or proof.
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  • For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.
    Frank Rich
  • Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
    Rowan Williams
  • Gould's argument on reification purports to get at the philosophical foundation of the field. He claims that general intelligence, defined as the factor common to different cognitive abilities, is merely a mathematical abstraction; hence if we consider it a measurable attribute we are reifying it, falsely converting an abstraction into an “entity” or a “thing”—variously referred to as “a hard, quantifiable thing,” “a quantifiable fundamental particle,” “a thing in the most direct, material sense.” Here he has dug himself a deep hole.… Indeed, this whole argument is fantastic. The scientist does not measure “material things”: He measures properties (such as length or mass), sometimes of a single “thing” (however defined), and sometimes of an organized collection of things, such as a machine, a biological organ, or an organism. In a particularly complex collection, the brain, some properties (i.e., specific functions) have been traced to narrowly-localized regions (such as the sensory or motor nuclei connected to particular parts of the body).
    Stephen Jay Gould

Related words: purports to, purports to be, purports to do, purports to be a, purports to be necessary

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