cursory

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Officials have to try to turn the administration’s cursory tariff threats on social media into formal trade deals.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

A cursory glance at your savings, which total $2.6 million, suggests you have both the opportunity and the privilege of funding your daughter’s continuing education.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026

In interviews, some surrogates said they felt the agencies rushed their screenings or did cursory reviews of their backgrounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

I think you have really surfaced the idea that this conversation about “foreign policy” and “balancing equities” and “harms to the parties” should not probably be resolved in four cursory paragraphs on the shadow docket.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2025

The woman did not even give the collection of bones a cursory glance.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray