The phrase "as ostensible" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that appears to be true or real but may not actually be so, often in contexts discussing motives or reasons.
Example: "The ostensible reason for the meeting was to discuss budget cuts, but the real agenda was to address employee dissatisfaction."
Alternatives: "as apparent" or "as seeming".
He created pseudonyms as ostensible authors and kept his writers anonymous, to secure his exclusive control of the franchise.
As ostensible parts of a Green New Deal, they divert money and attention from the primary mission: rapidly eliminating emissions between now and midcentury.
Before an important climate bill vote in 2005, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla). — sometimes called "Senator Snowball" for his stunt introducing a snowball on the Senate floor as ostensible evidence against global warming — attacked me by name in a Senate speech, maligning my research methods and findings.
In some introductory philosophy textbooks and anthologies, the arguments for God's existence are presented as ostensible proofs which are then shown to be fallible.
Difficult vocabulary words such as "ostensible" and "presaged" were eliminated, as was slang.
As ostensible proof that he was not predisposed against Kentuckians, Jackson also implied that he had not reported additional dishonorable behavior by Kentucky militiamen during the battle.
But it is also the case that, at times, in the view of his critics, he becomes a caricature of himself: one cannot but notice his own propensity to use the word "fascist" as loosely as his ostensible opponents.
We examine these compendiums as thresholds lying outside the poems as their ostensible background material, these thesholds not only frame questions of genre and genealogy but also mediate the borders of poems.
Mr Mikati, a telecoms magnate, was seen as a competent, relatively neutral figure, but his position as the ostensible top Sunni was fragile.
Among listeners, Russo, as the passionate eccentric, may stir more affection, and Francesa, as the ostensible insider, garners the respect, but it is widely acknowledged — even, to a point, by the principals themselves — that they are better together than alone.
Pakistan would much prefer to keep America as its ostensible ally, rather than a declared enemy.
