Example Sentences

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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

Charlotin believes that the superficially authentic tone of AI bots’ output may encourage overworked or inattentive lawyers to accept bogus citations without double-checking.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

The familiar tree of life has therefore been rewritten to express this, with organisms that seem quite different revealed as having more similar genomes than superficially closer-seeming relatives.

From Salon • May 15, 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

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