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Definition
to claim — (often said of something that is not easy to believe or is not true)
- Or they could watch alibooboo.com, with various supposed thieves having their hands cut off and adulterers and lipstick-wearers being stoned to death by howling crowds, in dusty enclaves that purported to be in fundamentalist countries in the Middle East.p. 82.5
There are no more uses of "purport" in Oryx and Crake.
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