appear as

1. Act the part of in public, usually alluding to a performance on stage. For example, She got wonderful reviews when she appeared as Portia. This idiom uses appear in the sense of “to come before the public,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.

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These motions appear as slight Doppler shifts in the star's light.

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Both ideas could appear as higher nutrient consumption, but only the first would signal a rise in marine productivity.

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Funny how these old photos look as if they could have been taken today, just as the images I capture now appear as though from decades ago.

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It follows a leaked internal BBC memo which said the programme had misled viewers by splicing together two parts of the US president's 6 January 2021 speech, making it appear as if he had explicitly encouraged the Capitol Hill riot.

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Meta’s minority stake in its Hyperion joint venture will appear as an “non-marketable equity investment” on its balance sheet, according to the company’s latest quarterly filing.

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