What is another word for Alleging?

Pronunciation: [ɐlˈɛd͡ʒɪŋ] (IPA)

Alleging is a word that is often used in legal, journalism and academic contexts, to refer to the act of making a claim or assertion about something or someone that has yet to be proven. Its synonyms include the words asserting, claiming, maintaining, contending, stating, and professing. Each of these words denotes a level of confidence in the stated fact, with alleging being the most tentative and claiming and asserting being the most firm. Using synonyms for alleging can help to impart a sense of clarity and authority to a statement, while giving the reader or listener a more complete understanding of the author's point of view.

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Usage examples for Alleging

In Alleging that it is so, Mr. George evidently alludes to the doctrine of wages taught by Ricardo and his school; but what they recognised in wages was a tendency, not to a minimum that would give but a bare living, but to a minimum that would give a customary living; in other words, that would sustain the labourers in the standard of comfort customary among their own class.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
She declined, Alleging the fatigue of her night journey as an excuse, and then she left the bower, and mingled with the rest of the company.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
He vouchsafed me the information in as laconic a manner as possible; he would enter into no particulars, and refused point-blank when I expressed a wish to put some questions to Countess Morynska, Alleging as a pretext that his cousin was unwell.
"Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel"
E. Werner

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