Meaning & use
purporting
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Claiming or professing to be or do something, often when the claim is doubtful or unverified.
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The email was purporting to be from the recipient's bank.
He arrived carrying documents purporting to prove his identity.
A note on using this word
Frequently used in legal and journalistic writing to signal that a claim has not been confirmed.
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