ostensible

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• Days after polishing off this ostensible treat, I’m still brushing the bad taste out of my mouth.

• Along with its headquarters employees, that alone would exceed the PPP’s ostensible 500-employee cap.

• Even more remarkably, Florida’s renewed stance against both ostensible communism and critical race theory in schools comes with a new state policy of surveying college students and faculty for their opinions on their schools’ ideological makeup.

• While the motivation to improve election security is spurious, the ostensible goal isn’t — everyone would agree that a secure election is important for democracy.

• Despite the ostensible democratic reforms in the country in recent years, the military commander-in-chief retained powerful influence, including command of the defense, border affairs and home affairs ministries, whose reach is pervasive.

• And why would its ostensible spokesperson refuse to answer yes/no questions about them?

• A trove of Bush-era emails that had been quote-unquote-lost resurfaced in 2009, the victim of an ostensible act of mislabeling.

• The ostensible middle-ground approach, to “provide weapons an training” to the Ukrainians got about  25 perent of the vote.

• Oblivious self-entitlement is now so widespread and suitable for mockery that the ostensible cure has begun to follow in its wake.

• It would seem that for all of its ostensible lack of vim and vigor, Israel Media Watch is a very effective organization.