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Example sentences for: ostensible
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Yes, the ostensible reason for the mission--aging research--is dubious.
The ostensible truth multiplier 1,000 percent (from George McGovern's 1972 avowal of support for his running mate, Thomas F. Eagleton, whom he claimed to support "1,000 percent" and then summarily dropped from the ticket) is now an ironic synonym for "don't bet on it" or even "not on your life."
But many others who named names did so under ostensible protest, or later castigated themselves publicly for crawling before the committee.
Forman and his colleagues present the Andy Kaufman mystery as if they thought it was utterly impenetrable" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or as Janet Maslin writes in the New York Times , "what is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way?"
But it is not his ostensible subject, so he relegates much of what he has to say about plants--among other things--to frequent, lengthy, and digressive notes.