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Many of its now-vanished pavilions had purported to show visitors the future — with its touch-tone, speaker and video phones, IBM Selectric typewriters, even colonies on the moon and houses underground.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2014

Each series of reforms purports to be better than the last, which had purported to be better than ones before. 

From Salon • May 24, 2012

He had written to tell Mr Stead of his experiences, which included several in which the Julia of "Julia's Letters" had purported to be present.

From Seen and Unseen by Bates, E. Katharine

The note had been written by Lady Laura, but it had purported to come from Lord Brentford himself.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony