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ostensibly

US // (ɒˈstɛnsɪblɪ) //

表面上是,表面上看,表面上,表面上看是

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : apparently; seemingly

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Examples

  • In 2017, it alienated customers by deliberately but quietly slowing the performance of older iPhones via a software update, ostensibly to spare the life of aging batteries.

  • Yet he apparently had no such qualms a week later when he signed a decree mandating that telecoms hand over data on 226 million Brazilians to IBGE, the government’s statistical agency, ostensibly for surveying households during the pandemic.

  • If it does not, candidates could ostensibly sue their rivals for claiming the paper’s endorsement and not just the endorsement of the Union-Tribune’s editorial board.

  • Researchers elicited anxiety among the women by giving them three minutes to put together a speech on their flood preparedness — natural disasters are a common threat to the island — to ostensibly be evaluated later by government experts.

  • To submit a number of bogus academic papers to ostensibly serious academic journals in those fields … and show how easily unsupported claims could be presented as factual without reasonable proofs.

  • Sorkin may not have won his fight, ostensibly to reform the news.

  • The uncle told RTL radio Hauchard called his grandmother, ostensibly from Syria, on Nov. 2, for her birthday.

  • Ostensibly meant to protect babies, these products are dangerous.

  • In June, Pakistan launched an all-out military offensive in the region, ostensibly to evict all the militants from the area.

  • And while there are cutscenes that ostensibly explain the grander narrative, nothing really makes sense.

  • Every act of the Americans, ostensibly as courtesy and friendship, tend to that end.

  • The thing was ostensibly done, and served very well to hide an exclamation of surprise.

  • Yet, though ostensibly free, these local bodies are practically in the power of the political wire-puller, or cacique.

  • In Kent there had been an p. 29alarming outbreak of the peasantry, ostensibly against the use of agricultural machinery.

  • But what we tolerate in uncivilized lands, even where we are ostensibly rulers, we will not suffer in our own.