first blush

1. see at first blush.

Example Sentences

At first blush, ChatGPT provided a useful first cut even though, for this exercise, I only analyzed three of the six plans that met my criteria.

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"At first blush, they thought it was just a lot of individual initiative from Chinese companies," he says.

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Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward.

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At first blush, Casey Means seems like the last person Christian conservatives would want as the Surgeon General.

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At first blush, hockey and Harvard appear to go together about as well as a concussion and a Nobel Prize.

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