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Its purported goal was to have a ten-pages file on every human on the planet.

Most of the time, people commenting like this are simply trying on other people's purported outrage to see how it feels.

They're extremely ineloquent and whatever wisdom is purported to be there, just doesn't seem to be there.

Perhaps the purported flame-retardant chemicals don't prevent as many fires as people suppose.

* A problem is said to be in "NP" if there is an algorithm that takes only polynomial time to check a purported solution for correctness.

Several years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag: Schrdinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.

They know spying can be abused, but in their minds any abuse is unintentional and minor relative to the purported benefits of spying on terrorists.

Catholicism is not only open to having purported miracles investigated; it's, in fact, a requirement.

Favouring conservative taxation in favour of purported "individualism" is not only selfish, but highly inefficient.

This is one of the silliest purported ethical issues I've ever seen, but it consistently gets contemplating nods from those pretending to be wise, so long as we're talking about a new, scary technology, and not a mundane, accepted reality.

Further, most of the purported benefit standing desks is to prolong lifespan, and there's even stronger evidence that low-BMI people live longer, so the suggestion that I should gain weight and sacrifice a clinically validated approach to living longer in favor of something as novel as a standing desk is just absurd.