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Example sentences for: ostensibly

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And, like McGovern, Dole was enticed into an untenable choice, not by his party's fringes, but by ostensibly responsible establishmentarian elements.
Federal investigators 1) dismissed the report as "rumors and innuendo"; 2) said lab tests indicate the residue is from standard glue used in plane seats; and 3) seized the radar tape, ostensibly to check it out.
John McCain's anti-tobacco bill . It would raise the price of cigarettes (thereby ostensibly discouraging youth smoking) by imposing half a billion dollars in fees on tobacco companies to support anti-smoking education, research, health care, and cessation programs.
, the balanced-budget amendment and health insurance for poor kids); and 3) disagree sharply even where they ostensibly agree (e.g.
In the golden age of political machines, for example, bosses often occupied ostensibly unimportant jobs and left the glorious titles to their marionettes.)