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The phrase "a ostensibly" is not correct in written English.
The correct form should be "an ostensibly" because "ostensibly" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "He is an ostensibly successful businessman, but his methods are questionable."
Alternatives: "a seemingly" or "an apparently".
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The novel was accompanied by an art book, Appendix A:, ostensibly a catalog of items amassed by its disturbed narrator.
This morning, a half-dozen correction officers swept through the beds of Cell Block A, ostensibly in search of pruno.
Kim Director gives a wonderfully shrewd interpretation of a ostensibly dimwitted airline stewardess.
By tomorrow, when the congress ends, the 6,000 delegates will have turned the Freedom People (PdL) - made up of Berlusconi's Forza Italia ("Come on Italy!") party and the post-fascist National Alliance - from an electoral coalition into a ostensibly monolithic movement representing the bulk of Italy's conservatives.
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From a distance, the idea of a revolution in an ostensibly modern, statistically prosperous country may seem suspect, outmoded, puzzling.
We recently used Geneva to check a lead on an ostensibly attractive grant in India.
But in a strange omission for an ostensibly sporty sedan, the Galant does not offer a manual transmission.
Well, it's an ostensibly ambitious melding of a small car with a big car.
It was a weak display against an ostensibly weak team.
The ideology of limitless growth turns this on its head: it injects an otherworldly cosmology into an ostensibly secular context.
They have established an ostensibly independent judicial system, created a National Assembly and held a presidential election.
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