ostensibly
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This is ostensibly a courtesy to avoid alerting current co-workers that you are job hunting, but it means people you rub the wrong way could ding you years later.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Warsh resigned in 2011, ostensibly over the Fed’s balance-sheet expansion, and went to work for Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
Hosting Tottenham head coach Roberto de Zerbi in Chelsea's directors' box on Monday, ostensibly to scout his future opponents, went down poorly with sections of the fanbase.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Ironically, arbitration has come about ostensibly through willing agreement.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026
Since the owner’s house was burned and the owner ostensibly burned with it, the employees of the tannery, out of respect, did not go to work.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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