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The phrase "after ostensibly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something appears to be true or is claimed to be true, but may not actually be the case, often followed by an action or event.
Example: "After ostensibly completing the project, he revealed that he had not followed the guidelines."
Alternatives: "following what seems to be" or "after apparently".
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After ostensibly glorifying Lieberman's "overt normalcy," why compare his phylacteries to the cilice of Opus Dei?
Where is the cook?" One case Mr. Kumar pays close attention to is that of Hemant Lakhani, an elderly and somewhat delusional Indian-born British clothing merchant arrested after ostensibly delivering a shoulder-to-air missile to an F.B.I. informant in an Elizabeth, N.J., hotel room.
Surely they must have witnessed the incident, so close to their checkpoint as to be captured by their CCTV camera?The traffic policemen, after ostensibly stopping Mr Sombath to inspect his driving documents, demonstrated no apparent concern about the strange person who arrived at the scene by motorbike then drove off with the NGO leader's car.
After ostensibly getting rid of the bad guys, they are married.
Barack Obama ended up at Columbia, but only after ostensibly following a girl to Occidental College in California.
I turned the offer down, and got kicked out of therapy soon after, ostensibly for my refusal to take my pants off in group.
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Charles Li keeps a TV and video camera on hand at his downtown salon, filming his customers' "before" and "after" looks, ostensibly to illustrate his range of hairstyles.
And Chubais, sometime after his ostensibly victorious press conference, began riding around town with a full complement of armed guards in a bulletproof Mercedes-Benz.
These differences assume lethal significance after the ostensibly Igbo-led 1966 military coup, which becomes a pretext for anti-Igbo pogroms after the counter-coup six months later.
In high school, Murrah said, parents of children at other schools would often follow Tebow home after practice, ostensibly hoping to prove the Tebows did not live in Nease's district.
It concerns Doug Thomas Sadoskii of The Newsroom) and Beth (Amanda Seyfried of Mean Girls and Mamma Mia), circling each other awkwardly after an ostensibly passionate night that began at some "gathering thingy".
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