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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a nominally" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is in name only or has a stated value that may not reflect the actual situation.
Example: "The organization operates with a nominally low budget, but its expenses are much higher than reported."
Alternatives: "a supposedly" or "a ostensibly".
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But even Mr. Hu, head of a nominally communist nation, faces challenges at home.
"O.K., fine," he said, in what seemed intended as a nominally conciliatory gesture.
Myanmar is now ruled by a nominally civilian government, but new freedoms have amplified old animosities.
And it was a nominally independent if ramshackle republic, with embassies and a Congress and everything.
Even China, controlled by a nominally Communist party, has blessed private entrepreneurs and foreign investment.
The council is a nominally independent group sanctioned by the government.
They may even do it for charities that have a nominally religious origin.
They shared these ideas about a just society in the midst of a civil war that spanned the nineteen-eighties, pitting a nominally democratic government against a nominally communist guerrilla insurgency.
And how long can a nominally Communist party maintain its right to rule over a largely capitalist country?
A nominally "realist" novel might be so fragmented and starkly edited that its minimalism seems experimental, and deliberately artificial.
After UN-sponsored elections in 1993, the CPP reluctantly accepted a nominally subordinate role in a coalition.
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