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
Meloni received Rubio politely, with the customary Italian cheek kisses and brief hug, but without the demonstrative warmth she sometimes shows other dignitaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Though not as demonstrative as he once was, Mehta has not lost the essence of his L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
But, at other times, vast, well-constructed, apparently robust intellectual edifices are swept away with barely a murmur because, to paraphrase Vadianus, experience really can be demonstrative.
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
Many nations have both expletives and demonstratives analogous to the particle above.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
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