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
He is not a demonstrative individual, in news conferences or on the sideline.
From BBC ● May 3, 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
“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
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
"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
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
You perceive, then, that these demonstratives have all the force of the definite article, and a little more.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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