first blush

1. see at first blush.

Example Sentences

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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At first blush, this anxiety seems rooted in a fear that we’ll never go back to normal, that the future we were once promised is now gone.

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“At first blush, the American political landscape can seem quite bleak, in part because of heightened political polarization,” observed researchers from UC Berkeley and Columbia University in March.

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