demonstrative
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Mr. Pelley chose the former, more demonstrative course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“How he not only led by example, but he was very demonstrative in the practice in terms of his expectations of the team, how they played, their togetherness,” Pelinka said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
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
We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
"This distinction may explain the early evolutionary origin of demonstratives as linguistic forms," he added.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
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
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
Attraction of demonstratives, 246, 5; —— of relatives, 250, 5; —— subjunctive by attraction, 324; —— of adjectives, 327, 2, a; 328, 2.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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