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ostensibly

[ o-sten-suh-blee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in appearance only; supposedly:
The event was ostensibly for charity, but he mainly used it to promote his new book.

First recorded in 1760–70; ostensib(le) ( def ) + -ly ( def )

Sorkin may not have won his fight, ostensibly to reform the news.

The uncle told RTL radio Hauchard called his grandmother, ostensibly from Syria, on Nov. 2, for her birthday.

Ostensibly meant to protect babies, these products are dangerous.

In June, Pakistan launched an all-out military offensive in the region, ostensibly to evict all the militants from the area.

And while there are cutscenes that ostensibly explain the grander narrative, nothing really makes sense.

Every act of the Americans, ostensibly as courtesy and friendship, tend to that end.

The thing was ostensibly done, and served very well to hide an exclamation of surprise.

Yet, though ostensibly free, these local bodies are practically in the power of the political wire-puller, or cacique.

In Kent there had been an p. 29alarming outbreak of the peasantry, ostensibly against the use of agricultural machinery.

But what we tolerate in uncivilized lands, even where we are ostensibly rulers, we will not suffer in our own.

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