ostensible

Example Sentences

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It's not even clear whether the new board did anything to enforce or police those rules, other than share them with media to promote the event and the ostensible reforms behind it.

From Salon

“Their ostensible position of neutrality is, to put it charitably, harder and harder to believe,” the U.S. official said.

From Washington Post

The governor also criticized ostensible conservatives for targeting private businesses deemed hostile to right-wing values, citing Mr. DeSantis in particular.

From New York Times

The Cold War with the Soviet Union provided the ostensible context for McCarthy's ravings about "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man."

From Salon

By the end of the book, there’s a lot of blood on the floor, but it doesn’t belong to the author or her ostensible subject.

From New York Times