superficially
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While that approach is direct and at least superficially logical, it’s not optimal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Programs that superficially appear to be pure science but that provide data crucial for planning the missions to the moon and Mars are being terminated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
The familiar tree of life has therefore been rewritten to express this, with organisms that seem quite different revealed as having more similar genomes than superficially closer-seeming relatives.
From Salon ● May 15, 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
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
