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After viewing the video, Beck concluded the officer’s actions were not reasonable “given Alford’s limited and unapparent resistance,” his report said. The chief and the civilian Police Commission determined Garcia violated department rules during the arrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2016

The extension of the known to the unknown, of the apparent to the unapparent, gives us Science.

From The Principles of Success in Literature by Lewes, George Henry

Strickland was used to stormy youth, to its passional moments, sudden glows, burnings, sympathies, defiances, lurid shows of effects with the causes largely unapparent.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

The results of it will not be unapparent in the following Notes, which, I need to remind my readers, are, in spite of their small bulk, the sole reason for the existence of this volume.

From Thoughts on Religion by Gore, Charles

In Somehow Good the ugliest tragedy takes its place in the unapparent order of life.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon