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supposedly (After the evacuation announcement, warning sirens sounded in Donetsk and other cities in the two Moscow-backed statelets, supposedly due to an upcoming Ukrainian military assault on the region. • On Thursday morning some pro-Russian Twitter accounts posted photographs of a damaged kindergarten, supposedly inside separatist territory and hit by Ukrainian forces.  theguardian.com); ostensibly (Would-be candidates are having their registration applications turned down, ostensibly on administrative grounds. • I brought a suitcase to the office, ostensibly to hold the spare suit I'd been keeping there. But I was really preparing myself to clean out my desk and give my notice.); so-called; said to be (Georgy Moiseenko); supposed to be (Georgy Moiseenko); would-be (Грушниций); as if; as though; purportedly (He was given a letter purportedly signed by the Prime Minister. • According to reports, the intruders had demanded to be shown the safe purportedly in the family home. • The study purportedly found that men married to smart women live longer. Small Ants Eva); under the pretense of (= как бы: to reveal an intimate body part under the pretense of an accident – якобы случайно 4uzhoj); thought to be (to have been); quasi; assertedly; it is believed that; it is said that; it is thought that; supposed (в функции частицы для выражения сомнительности, мнимости Abysslooker); fake (fake brother, fake sister Taras); that (implying skepticism about a statement); constructively (Anikin); allegedly |
