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superficial

[soo-per-fish-uhl] / ˌsu pərˈfɪʃ əl /


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"Even if it becomes easier to build a superficial app, it's enormously expensive to get that app in front of people. Established apps still have a huge market advantage."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

“It’s a terrible idea to move swiftly and not have the really complicated and challenging process that is required to actually work towards more than a superficial pretense of revisionist history,” Gudis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

“He was a scrupulously superficial man, believing so fervently in the magic of surfaces that his fervor almost passed for profundity,” Mr. Junod writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

X on Friday denounced what it called the EU's "incomplete and superficial investigation".

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

From time to time I had made superficial attempts to identify with an author.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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