demonstrative
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"They’ve been striking trains for a long time already. It’s just that this time, they decided to target in a more demonstrative way a train that was going abroad," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Finns may not be known for demonstrative cheerfulness, nor necessarily for being makers of excessively happy music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Mr. Pelley chose the former, more demonstrative course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
World number one Aryna Sabalenka will provide the demonstrative energy in Saturday's Australian Open final, while fifth seed Elena Rybakina will offer clinical composure from the other side of the net.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
At its most demonstrative it was now about two inches long.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
Hence, no practical advantage would be gained, by rejecting their established classification, as articles, numerals, and demonstratives, and by giving them new names.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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