ostensive
Example Sentences
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Rather, he is ostensively defining what he calls “the smug style in American liberalism.”
It serves mainly to provide the regime with ostensive evidence of its power and technological progress.
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He jerked forward in his chair, "Except, of course, ostensively."
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Explain the meaning of "ostensive" and "indirect" Reduction.
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No proof, in a question of that nature, can be so showy and ostensive to a stranger, as that which is supplied by this vindictive pamphlet.
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