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reputed
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reputed as in:  reputed to be

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  • Rangers were reputed to be the toughest men in the army.†  (source)
  • The Chinese are reputed to have invented rocketry.†  (source)
  • Edith was reputed to be a silent woman, who died herself in 1938 at forty-three years old.†  (source)
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  • Men reputed to be involved with drugs, vice, robbery, murder.†  (source)
  • It was the cleanest image of war I had ever seen; even the Air Force, reputedly so high above the infantry's mud, was stained with axle grease by comparison, and the Navy was vulnerable to scurvy.†  (source)
  • It just so happened, however, that a cursory examination of this Former Person's recent associates led to a certain willowy actress—who for years had been the reputed paramour of a round-faced Commisar recently appointed to the Politburo.†  (source)
  • We passed the famous Shah Faisal Mosque on the way there, reputedly the biggest mosque in the world, with its giant concrete girders and soaring minarets.†  (source)
  • At the apex of their sway over the affairs of the Universe, their swordsmanship was said to match that of the Ginaz tenth level and their cunning abilities at in-fighting were reputed to approach those of a Bene Gesserit adept.†  (source)
  • There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth.†  (source)
  • And there was Mr. Early's daughter, Maureen—reputed to have wet her pants when Owen Meany tried out for the part of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.†  (source)
  • Then sent off to exile in Italy, reputedly "for his health" while knowing all the while it meant a lonely, painful death at the age of twenty-six.†  (source)
  • "Athens is like a sluggish horse," he is reputed to have said, "and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life."†  (source)
  • Much is said and written about the number of deer reputedly slaughtered by wolves.†  (source)
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A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter.  (source)
reputed = with good reputation
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