at first blush
Example Sentences
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Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Even then, his "logic" falls apart at first blush.
From Salon • May 18, 2024
That such discoveries were made at a cancer center isn't as surprising as it might seem at first blush.
From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2024
But it goes against the grain: Selling something you don’t own smacks, at first blush, of a confidence scheme.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2023
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
