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The phrase "ostensible reduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decrease that appears to be real but may not be genuine or substantial.
Example: "The company reported an ostensible reduction in costs, but further analysis revealed hidden expenses."
Alternatives: "apparent decrease" or "seeming reduction."
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Thus, in HT-29, Lovo and SW480 cells low nano molar concentrations of PGE2 reduced PKA substrate phosphorylation, in the absence of any ostensible reduction of cAMP levels.
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"In the face of the post-2008 cofthection of the academic job market, proposals to reduce the size of graduate education in our fields have been heard," the committee writes: The ostensible goal of such a reduction would be to realign the rate of PhD production with the number of tenure-track openings.
The most ostensible explanation regarding membrane pore size reduction is cross-linking and/or polymerization.
The ostensible advantage of adjuvant radiotherapy is to decrease local recurrence of rectal cancers.
Mr. Obama might have done more to make short-term stimulus — like further reductions to the payroll tax, which would would not have violated the Republicans' ostensible goals — the price for long-term austerity.
The ostensible reason — get this!
At least, ostensible ones.
His ostensible mandate was reform.
The past weeks have seen challenges based on ostensible felony status in Florida, ostensible deaths in North Carolina and ostensible address problems in Ohio, among others.
There were ostensible villains and losers as well.
The ostensible ground for delay is over the newcomers' role.
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