nominally

Example Sentences

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It’s nominally about former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the Vietnam War, but Rhodes clearly intends the contemporary resonance:

From Salon

Worthy of debate, however, is how the pure fantasy landscape of “Avatar” fits in a park that still nominally tries to reflect California and our diversity.

From Los Angeles Times

The astronomer also said the star identified was slightly smaller than one scientists would "nominally expect to turn into a black hole."

From Barron's

The war-ravaged nation has never hosted an international match, instead having to play their nominally home fixtures at adopted grounds in India and the United Arab Emirates.

From Barron's

No arguments there; but there are certainly a few to be had with Mr. Dalrymple’s fourth so-called partition, that of Princely India—the nominally independent protectorates that constituted almost a third of the Indian empire.

From The Wall Street Journal