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

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

A borrowed jacket and tie, however, made me superficially presentable as our bus driver let us out in front of the huge country house.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson