ostensible
Example Sentences
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So too have been the ostensible efficiencies that AI brings to businesses.
From Los Angeles Times
Like that movie, “Remake” has an ostensible central subject that becomes a mere frame for his actual one.
Fitzgerald Mosley will need the help of her ostensible supporters if she wants to say just that.
From Salon
This organization’s ostensible goal is to “promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.”
From Salon
But notes of disillusion sound throughout this ostensible success story.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.