apparent

Example Sentences

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The Kim regime has little apparent reason to start a fight now, despite the U.S. having rotated some of the region’s air-defense capabilities and Marines to the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Fisher cites a few factors for buyers’ apparent resilience last month: Rates are still a little lower than they were at the same time last year.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

The frugality in “Hag” is apparent from its modest start.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Nearly everyone in the train car was a ghost, and their apparent lack of interest in Boaz seemed to be more a function of the fact that they thought he could not see them.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny