Sentence examples similar to is ostensibly acceptable from inspiring English sources

The commission is ostensibly independent.

Sure, Uber is (ostensibly) worth $66 billion.

Money is ostensibly bigger.

The decision is ostensibly malleable.

But what's acceptable in a girl who's coping with the loss of a parent is ridiculous in someone who's ostensibly an adult.

I'm ostensibly an expert.

It was ostensibly a long-planned move.

And he's ostensibly right.

"American Idol" was ostensibly about building stars.

Some insights provided by our model are ostensibly counter-intuitive.

Rather, in "Due Date," he tells us it is perfectly acceptable to laugh as a (much admired) movie star pretends to whale on a pesky child who ostensibly had it coming.