1
as in minimally
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2
as in imperfectly
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superficially
Adverb
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The timing of these cuts could not be worse for the millions of families barely scraping by like hers.—
Aisha Nyandoro,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Despite this, experts say barely any research is being done on this overlap.—
Charles Trepany,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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This time line implies life could have begun scarcely 300 million years after the big bang, perhaps even before the first recognizable galaxies formed.—
Conor Feehly,
Scientific American,
4 Mar. 2025
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In a safe and prosperous quarter century, the most important city in the country has scarcely grown at all.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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The order comes just days after Trump’s heated exchange with Zelensky in the Oval Office.—
Glenn Thrush,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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The family-friendly outing comes just days after the 52-year-old Argo star — fresh off his split from estranged wife Jennifer Lopez — and his son sat courtside at the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves game at L.A.'s Crypto.com Arena on Thursday.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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The landing follows the first successful landing of a commercial company performed by Intuitive Machines last year with its Odysseus lander, but that lander came in fast, had one of its legs damaged and ended up tipping partially on its side.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2025
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In all, the district has more than $1.5 billion in unfunded or partially funded capital needs including two shovel-ready, double-tracking projects planned for the Coaster corridor.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Limiting new graphical tricks to new hardware is hardly unique in the graphics business—Nvidia has gated multiple DLSS features to new GPUs, including Frame Generation for the GeForce RTX 40-series and Multi-Frame Generation for the 50-series.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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This system is fun, but hardly the main thing that makes this handset so good.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Superficially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficially. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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