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How to use the word superficially in a Sentence?

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We used to talk about it a lot. We used to only talk about it with each other. We show each other things like, did you see that ? Did you see that ? i think superficially it did seem like [ QAnon ] gave me comfort.

Jitarth Jadeja

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think superficially it did seem like [ QAnon ] gave me comfort.

Jitarth Jadeja

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Well, of course, it's superficially hypocritical call, isn't it ? I mean,( Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell wouldn't give President( Barack) Merrick Garland, Merrick Garland, a hearing 10 months before the presidential election. And that meant we went a long time with eight judges on the court.

President Clinton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the sad, no terrible, scenario before the war, during its tragic unfolding as well as afterward, the great figure of Pius XII stands out, he was superficially criticized and judged for some aspects of his pontificate and now, thanks to the opening faithfully desired by Pope Francis, I think historians who know how to investigate, without prejudice, but with the help of new documents, can find its richness and realistic importance.

Bishop Sergio Pagano.Pope

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Sadly, it is clear that the vested interests of the tobacco industry have been able to corrupt the national law discussions with a series of superficially compelling yet completely false arguments.

Bernhard Schwartländer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are many reasons to be pessimistic about the campaign, the 'Out' campaign have jolly good arguments superficially... Big business is pathetic and cowardly.

Charles Grant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Most superficially what we found was that smartphone users have a brain that processes touch differently than people who don't use smartscreen touch phones, however, if you dig a bit deeper into the data what you essentially see is that the most recent usage that people accumulated on their smartphones that reflected on the way that brains processed information from their fingertips. So essentially these day-to-day fluctuations that we encounter through our daily lives they imprint on the brain on the way that it processes information from your hands.

Arko Ghosh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We judge opposites very superficially. Cameron Diaz and Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden may not physically match ; but if Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden values are aligned, Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden aren't that different.

Andrea Syrtash

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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