demonstrative
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He is not a demonstrative individual, in news conferences or on the sideline.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
The group’s atmospheric sound and heart-on-sleeve romanticism have become touchstones for a wide variety of acts, from tranquil dream-poppers to loud and demonstrative emo-punks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
These videos aren’t necessarily emblematic of what I like, but their presence is demonstrative of the strangest, most rat-like part of my brain, seeking dopamine hits in the form of weird, 30-second blips.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
The audience’s demonstrative empathy for Louis, though, is as much a credit to the writing as Goldstein’s performance.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024
Thus in 1660 Boyle describes one experiment ‘as a plausible, though not demonstrative proof, that Water may be transmuted into Air’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
They tested over 1,000 speakers to see how they use demonstratives in their language to describe where objects are across a range of different spatial configurations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
Statistical analysis revealed the same mapping between reachable and non-reachable objects and demonstratives across all languages.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
"This distinction may explain the early evolutionary origin of demonstratives as linguistic forms," he added.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
These demonstratives are very numerous—many of them being used as pronouns of the third person, and are declined for number, person, and case.
From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews
The pronouns of the third person are mere demonstratives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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