purport
Example Sentences
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He wrote what he thought “each speaker is most likely to have needed to say” within “the overall purport of the speech as actually delivered.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Anderson doesn’t purport to have the answers, only a new way to read life’s instructions.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025
These are guys who purport to be data-driven, quantitative, hard-numbers people.
From Slate • Aug. 15, 2025
The university also argues that the administration has failed to follow rules about suspending federal funds and that its actions are punitive and "bear no rational connection to the concerns they purport to address".
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025
I did not hear of this charade until the next day, and did not understand its purport; rather thinking it a pleasant interlude from the more brutal games of the Sons of Liberty.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.