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demonstrative

[duh-mon-struh-tiv] / dəˈmɒn strə tɪv /




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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

Lanier leaned on his down-home Texas folksiness throughout the trial, telling the jury what was on his heart and scribbling with grease pencil on his demonstrative aids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

And he has a distaste for “poverty porn,” of the kind showcased at fundraising concerts by morally demonstrative pop stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

And her path had been far more impressive and demonstrative of her skills.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

"This distinction may explain the early evolutionary origin of demonstratives as linguistic forms," he added.

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

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

All, any, both, each, either, many, one, other, etc. are called +Indefinite+ pronouns because they do not point out and particularize like the demonstratives.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg


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