Example Sentences
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The arm positions for Mr. Louis and Ms. Chapa passingly resemble archers’ bows or crescent moons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
It’s a snappy, gutsy comedy about how kids are spoiled and ignorant, and yet the adult workplace is only passingly more mature.
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024
A couple of pretty impressive power hitters became godlike sluggers overnight and at the exact same moment, for no apparent reason, and somehow no one found this more than passingly peculiar.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022
Today’s L.A. map might be passingly familiar to the rancheros of 200 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2021
It appears that investors only have passingly paid attention to my letters, and many have been clinging to various rumors and hearsay in place of analysis or original thought.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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