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Meanings of at first blush in anglès

From appearances alone.

        As a first impression.

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              Examples for "apparently"
              Examples for "apparently"
              1
              He had written Bernard-withoutresult, apparently-tohave him come see the work.
              Blood music
              2
              Hence the decision, apparently taken with great reluctance, to exit the market.
              The Irish Times
              3
              The Spanish government apparently thinks so too, though for rather different reasons.
              The Irish Times
              4
              He said, News travels quickly, especially when it is apparently beyond belief.
              Foundation and Empire
              5
              No scientist working with chimeras apparently wishes to create such nightmarish animals.
              Wired
              1
              They also ask us to accept a seemingly contradictory set of circumstances.
              Reuters
              2
              The seemingly gravity-defying art market also reflects the nature of wealth today.
              BBC
              3
              He had obtained freedom of choice but, seemingly, no freedom from responsibility.
              The Departure
              4
              We could start, perhaps, with the seemingly simple question, What is History?
              The Sense of an Ending
              5
              Yet Berenbrink found that diving animals' muscles seemingly carry too much myoglobin.
              BBC
              1
              Component parts are then added up to deliver an ostensibly definitive result.
              The Guardian
              2
              This proposal was ostensibly rejected by Mkhize and the department of health.
              The South African
              3
              The ideomotor effect also explains a number of other ostensibly paranormal phenomena.
              The Guardian
              4
              So I stayed in the city, ostensibly achieving nothing of medical value.
              The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
              5
              They're ostensibly self-organizing: They can define and redefine their purposes as needed.
              Wired
              Usage of at first blush in anglès
              1
              It was the only option, but at first blush a poor one.
              Blind descent: the quest to discover the deepest place on earth
              2
              The remedy, however, is not so simple as it seems at first blush.
              Our Changing Constitution
              3
              Every friend and every enemy of America will comprehend them at first blush.
              Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
              4
              So I thought at first blush; but are we so sure?
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 29, 1917
              5
              I admit that at first blush all this seems improbable, to say the least.
              Down There
              6
              The Kindle was apparently a lot more computerized than it looked at first blush.
              The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
              7
              And at first blush, the group valued them the same.
              Wired
              8
              These books seem at first blush to have every element of greatness, except spontaneity.
              Emerson and Other Essays
              9
              All this is far more like a child's game than appears at first blush.
              Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
              10
              And, at first blush, it might also look like terrific news for him personally too.
              The Guardian
              11
              That sounds like good news at first blush.
              Reuters
              12
              A statement, at first blush, to be disputed.
              Cheerful—By Request
              13
              What at first blush looks like disconnection and dispersal is, we realize, a kind of symbiosis.
              The Fifth Head of Cerberus
              14
              The news that Dish has made an unsolicited proposal to Sprint sounds crazy at first blush.
              Wired
              15
              Nothing simpler at first blush; yet, nothing more absurd, more contradictory in terms, or more absolutely impossible.
              What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
              16
              How it does so is fascinating as well, and at first blush potentially unsettling to security wonks.
              Wired