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 the early 20th century, totalitarianism was best known in countries that had superficially been modernized, but remained regressive in crucial ways.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 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

Whatever happened in the future, however superficially strange or shocking, would also have an unsurprising, familiar quality, inviting her to say, but only to herself, Oh yes, of course.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan