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• He shut down the office, ostensibly out of concern for his staff's safety.

• Ostensibly, she had achieved all her primary objectives.

• Kerry had been ostensibly phoning to offer advice, but he blurted out what was really on his mind.

• The editors are to be congratulated for having succeeded in bringing together what are ostensibly ten very different studies into a well-integrated, coherent whole.

• This flier makes explicit, despite its ostensibly pro-migrant tone, that migrant rights are in fact privileges that must be earned through integration.

• Regrettably, some anthropologists have begun to silence their own voices, ostensibly to create spaces for indigenous voices, but ultimately to everyone's detriment.

• In this example, someone is behaving somewhat like the ostensibly blundering chess player.

• This is not merely a matter of whether we take an ostensibly political stance toward language use; it relates to a range of analytic preferences.