demonstrative
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He is not a demonstrative individual, in news conferences or on the sideline.
From BBC ● May 3, 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
These videos aren’t necessarily emblematic of what I like, but their presence is demonstrative of the strangest, most rat-like part of my brain, seeking dopamine hits in the form of weird, 30-second blips.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
The audience’s demonstrative empathy for Louis, though, is as much a credit to the writing as Goldstein’s performance.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024
But, at other times, vast, well-constructed, apparently robust intellectual edifices are swept away with barely a murmur because, to paraphrase Vadianus, experience really can be demonstrative.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"This distinction may explain the early evolutionary origin of demonstratives as linguistic forms," he added.
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
Statistical analysis revealed the same mapping between reachable and non-reachable objects and demonstratives across all languages.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
In all the sentences illustrating the cases of nouns and other parts of speech in this paper, the demonstratives are omitted.
From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton)
All, any, both, each, either, many, one, other, etc. are called +Indefinite+ pronouns because they do not point out and particularize like the demonstratives.
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd
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