superficially
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Adrift, alone and haunted by guilt about that incident in her past, she becomes hypnotized by Peter’s superficially rational-sounding ideas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
In part, this is because it makes sense, superficially.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's unique, but superficially bland, ice giants.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Sloane superficially has everything, but she's still so hungry in every way.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
In place of pencil and paper, the main working tools were a set of molecular models superficially resembling the toys of preschool children.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
