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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reportedly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
find
▪ He reportedly found it very hard and was left hanging from his axes as both crampon placements broke loose nearing the top.
▪ Her body was reportedly found two days later, badly disfigured.
▪ Two females, aged two and eight, were reportedly found in a wolf den in Bengal in 1920.
▪ And in Boston a 6-year-old boy was murdered a week after a state caseworker reportedly found nothing wrong at home.
▪ The second time, marijuana was reportedly found in her possession.
include
▪ The purchase reportedly includes nine Omni-owned hotels and management contracts or franchise agreements on 25 others.
kill
▪ Dozens of civilians were reportedly killed in the crossfire.
▪ All of those were injured, and two were reportedly killed.
pay
▪ In all, friends of Clinton reportedly paid Hubbell more than $ 400, 000.
▪ Guzman reportedly paid bribes to secure privileges not given to other prisoners, including alcohol and women.
plan
▪ Intel is reportedly planning power-boosting Overdrive processors for the Pentium.
receive
▪ Mr Morgado reportedly received a $ 60 million settlement from Time Warner following his dismissal.
▪ His first marriage, to heiress Catherine Mellon, ended in divorce, and he reportedly received a $ 7 million settlement.
said
▪ Officials reportedly said this refers to tunnel complex.
▪ The teen-ager reportedly said he saw a stranger wielding a knife, and ran from the house when the man threatened him.
▪ In a confession to police, Davis reportedly said he had not been in Petaluma before the night he allegedly kidnapped Polly.
▪ King reportedly said Tyson will fight outside the country in September.
take
▪ Koffigoh was reportedly taken by his captors to meet President Gnassingbe Eyadema.
▪ About 660 soldiers reportedly took part in the engagement.
▪ The decision was reportedly taken in response to the government's current austerity programme.
▪ One employee reportedly took $ 1, 000 a day.
tell
▪ He reportedly told police who questioned him after the school attack that he had taken an overdose of tranquilizers.
try
▪ It's reportedly trying to recruit ISVs to write those programs now.
▪ Last year, the company reportedly tried to unload its domestic division, although Esprit officials denied it.
work
▪ The device, based on an 8-bit Motorola microprocessor, will reportedly work on any computer.
▪ She reportedly works at a local ski resort and keeps a few horses.
▪ Reid reportedly worked as a stock clerk on the graveyard shift at a Wal-Mart in Mountain View.
▪ She reportedly works out four hours a day, six days a week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even Vice President Al Gore has reportedly been dragged into the controversy.
▪ Four people were reportedly killed during violent clashes with the Army in the capital, Santo Domingo.
▪ His first marriage, to heiress Catherine Mellon, ended in divorce, and he reportedly received a $ 7 million settlement.
▪ Intel is reportedly planning power-boosting Overdrive processors for the Pentium.
▪ It also reportedly sold off a bunch of Sparc motherboards on very aggressive terms.
▪ Mr Morgado reportedly received a $ 60 million settlement from Time Warner following his dismissal.
▪ The voting reportedly passed off peacefully and was marked by apathy among the electorate of 5,200,000.
Wiktionary
reportedly

adv. According to reports or rumors; supposedly. (from 19th c.)

WordNet
reportedly

adv. according to reports or other information; "she was reportedly his mistress for many years"

Usage examples of "reportedly".

Star Forces are reportedly consolidating new positions near Palm and Iberiand, and the ground troops already on Adirondack are expected to continue guerrilla activity against the occupation units.

A parallel team of FBI agents from the New York JTTF had been tracking these cell members prior to the Harrisburg sessions, but in January of 1993, just weeks before the Trade Center blast - reportedly out of a concern that this second probe was sapping FBI manpower - Carson Dunbar shut it down as well.

Sensing that she might be the victim of politics in the New York office, the judge handling the Day of Terror case had reportedly ordered that agents from outside New York investigate.

The word reportedly came down to Neal Herman, head of the Joint Terrorist Task Force, who had committed a number of his agents to the Flight 800 probe.

Caroline Lampert, all of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the article reportedly concerns a radical new approach to attacking carcinomas through genetically engineered retroviruses.

Tintallionese demonologist by the name of Katherian of the Coast, whose advances Kallia had reportedly refused, and who apparently felt that Heremon had treated him unfairly in business.

A Sunni Muslim, he maintained a multivolume collection of the Koran, and once reportedly set a bomb that killed twenty-six rival Shiites at a mosque in Iran.

In the eight months since then Khalef had been reportedly seen in places as far apart as Rawalpindi and Beirut.

They had reportedly tried to use women in teams for solving a widely used Allied air-ground system, called syko, but switched to male students when the women did not produce satisfactory results.

It is for all these reasons that Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet has reportedly told the White House that a new covert action program to try to topple Saddam Hussein would have only about a 10 to 20 percent chance of succeeding.

United States reportedly has already detected indications of such activity.

Reportedly, there are hints in his post-LotR manuscripts that he indeed felt somewhat constrained.

Composted into the soil, it reportedly adds nutrients like trace elements, and even growth hormones that are difficult to find from other sources.

Other records showed that while the police had reportedly polygraphed thirty people before the arrests, since the arrests, they had polygraphed eleven more.

Ryan let his mind drift away, wondering about the mix of stickies and scalies that were reportedly in the area.