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demonstrative

[duh-mon-struh-tiv] / dəˈmɒn strə tɪv /




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"They’ve been striking trains for a long time already. It’s just that this time, they decided to target in a more demonstrative way a train that was going abroad," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

World number one Aryna Sabalenka will provide the demonstrative energy in Saturday's Australian Open final, while fifth seed Elena Rybakina will offer clinical composure from the other side of the net.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

And he has a distaste for “poverty porn,” of the kind showcased at fundraising concerts by morally demonstrative pop stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Though not as demonstrative as he once was, Mehta has not lost the essence of his L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

I wasn’t so demonstrative, but I felt proud and patriotic.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Statistical analysis revealed the same mapping between reachable and non-reachable objects and demonstratives across all languages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

They tested over 1,000 speakers to see how they use demonstratives in their language to describe where objects are across a range of different spatial configurations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

"This distinction may explain the early evolutionary origin of demonstratives as linguistic forms," he added.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

Attraction of demonstratives, 246, 5; —— of relatives, 250, 5; —— subjunctive by attraction, 324; —— of adjectives, 327, 2, a; 328, 2.

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

These demonstratives are very numerous—many of them being used as pronouns of the third person, and are declined for number, person, and case.

From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews




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