superficially

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As a zany critique of authoritarian cults, the novel is superficially relevant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

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

The analysis confirms what those of us who grew up on the superficially quiet Palos Verdes Peninsula have always known: It’s only a matter of time until the turbulent hillside crumbles into the ocean.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 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

From being ordered often to bring some particular scroll to Pai, he had become superficially familiar with these drawings, which at first had looked like meaningless bird tracks to him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw