semblance
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Maintaining a semblance of privacy is increasingly difficult in the age of social media, and how much we share with our unmarried partner about our financial affairs is on a need-to-know basis.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
"The best-case scenario is to end this conflict as quickly as possible and restore some semblance of stability."
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Who doesn’t yearn to clean up their mistakes and find some semblance of happiness, even when contentment seems so far out of reach?
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
All represent some semblance of taste, an attribute that’s scampered up the ranks of desirability in the AI era.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
We looked at each other, trembling on the brink of a quarrel, bitterness parting the threads of forbearance one by one, but while a few still held, suddenly, the outward semblance fell away.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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