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1. ostensiblyadverb

   seemingly, apparently, on the surface

   Synonyms:
   at first blush, ostensively, apparently, seemingly, arguably

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1. apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of itadverb

   from appearances alone

   "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor"

   Synonyms:
   plain, manifestly, plainly, patently, seemingly, evidently, on the face of it, obviously, apparently

How to use ostensibly in a sentence?

1. The Mississippi Democrat:

   His life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot.

2. Bennie Thompson:

   Team Pence life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot. He was sequestered in an area in the Capitol. So his life was in danger.

3. New York:

   Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a 'disastrous' and 'humiliating' 'fiasco,' in the words of the mainstream media’s ostensibly objective foreign-policy journalists, yet this political fiasco is not a development that the media covered so much as one that it created.

4. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Antisemitism has no place on any social media platform that doesn’t want to further the harassment and exclusion of marginalized communities, while Twitter ostensibly has an anti-hate policy that includes antisemitism, it is unclear the degree to which it is being enforced.

5. Carsten Hamann:

   Kids who have eczema or atopic dermatitis use more lotions and creams and ointments, etc. Ostensibly, their caregivers who purchase these products to use on the kids' skin, give preference to products using these meaningless marketing terms.

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