apparent

Example Sentences

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Periods of apparent advantage give way to new forms of competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Their apparent beef, which has been speculated about by very online people and, weirdly, business reporters, is now “Weekend Update” fodder, with the women comparing their fight to a “literal Chernobyl for white women.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

The following May, she left Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, in a sign of apparent confidence that its new leaders would allow her to return.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Others simply mocked the assertion that a new ballroom would sew up the president’s apparent security concerns.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt