ostensible
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So too have been the ostensible efficiencies that AI brings to businesses.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Like that movie, “Remake” has an ostensible central subject that becomes a mere frame for his actual one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Here, Sweeney takes a big leap from her admirable work in small-screen dramas and rom-coms to an ostensible Oscar vehicle, diving into the deep end with the same fearless certainty Martin boasted in the ’90s.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
But the movie is more effective as a grim, involving cop thriller than it is as an ostensible statement on the Order’s reverberations in the present.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024
By the time the weary marchers trudged into Jackson, the furor over Black Power had eclipsed discussion of voter registration, the march’s ostensible purpose.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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