adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A stranger came to the door, ostensibly to ask for directions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Diligently, even angrily, we express, discuss, and defend our ostensibly knowledgeable positions.
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Expected early in the year, it had been postponed, ostensibly because of the Gulf war.
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It is the absurdly pompous Pons who ostensibly pieces together the scattered evidence of Urim's past.
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Ramsay's other secret society, the Right Club, was also ostensibly closed down at the outbreak of war.
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The project in which everyone at Black Mountain was ostensibly engaged was building the community and personal growth.
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These external agents are beyond organizational control and, hence, ostensibly immune to corrective action.
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They were shot by one or more gunmen ostensibly delivering a painting, business people said.