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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

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

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

We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

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

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

Hence, no practical advantage would be gained, by rejecting their established classification, as articles, numerals, and demonstratives, and by giving them new names.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham

You perceive, then, that these demonstratives have all the force of the definite article, and a little more.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham


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