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reputed
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reputed as in:  reputed to be

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  • The island in Georgian Bay that has been in Katherine Keeling's family since 1933—when Katherine's grandfather reputedly won it in a poker game—is about a fifteen-minute boat ride from Pointe au Baril Station; the island is in the vicinity of Burnt Island and Hearts Content Island and Peesay Point.†  (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)
  • 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)
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  • Do you know he's reputed to be one of the biggest drug dealers in all of South Alabama?†  (source)
  • Claw Isle was but lightly garrisoned, its castle reputedly stuffed with Myrish carpets, Volantene glass, gold and silver plate, jeweled cups, magnificent hawks, an axe of Valyrian steel, a horn that could summon monsters from the deep, chests of rubies, and more wines than a man could drink in a hundred years.†  (source)
  • Rangers were reputed to be the toughest men in the army.†  (source)
  • The best known of the Cynics was Diogenes, a pupil of Antisthenes, who reputedly lived in a barrel and owned nothing but a cloak, a stick, and a bread bag.†  (source)
  • Edith was reputed to be a silent woman, who died herself in 1938 at forty-three years old.†  (source)
  • He recognized in the group a stillsuit manufacturer down from Carthag, an electronics equipment importer, a water-shipper whose summer mansion was near his polar-cap factory, a representative of the Guild Bank (lean and remote, that one), a dealer in replacement parts for spice mining equipment, a thin and hard-faced woman whose escort service for off-planet visitors reputedly operated as cover for various smuggling, spying, and blackmail operations.†  (source)
  • In those trunks are reputed to be the Purist Documents—thousands of pages of unaltered, preConstantine documents, written by the early followers of Jesus, revering Him as a wholly human teacher and prophet.†  (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)
  • In a bizarre twist, Hagrid is reputed to have developed a close friendship with the boy who brought around You-Know-Who's fall from power — thereby driving Hagrid's own mother, like the rest of You-Know-Who's supporters, into hiding.†  (source)
  • I spent the night, alone, in a reputedly haunted house on the coast of Maine, and interviewed a guy who was reported to be possessed by no less than thirteen demons.†  (source)
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A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter.  (source)
reputed = with good reputation
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