ostensible

Example Sentences

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Fitzgerald Mosley will need the help of her ostensible supporters if she wants to say just that.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Behind the scenes, Pratt had already fallen hard for Montag, who’d been cast on “The Hills” as lead protagonist Lauren Conrad’s ostensible sidekick and peer at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

But notes of disillusion sound throughout this ostensible success story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

But the movie is more effective as a grim, involving cop thriller than it is as an ostensible statement on the Order’s reverberations in the present.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024

The ostensible reason was that the numbers were easily changed and falsified.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife