1
as in minimally
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as in imperfectly
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superficially
Adverb
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Ophelia barely registers; Gertrude gets less than two lines.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025 -
Yet in less than two years, that island has been whittled down by the sea to barely a dot — not much remains in the third photograph, dating to the end of 2024.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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Coffers scarcely contained enough money to pay staff.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
12 Jan. 2025
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The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
11 Jan. 2025
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Violette’s final choice doesn’t make sense in the context of everything she’s experienced over the course of the film, and Florence’s just manifests too quickly.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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Lately, the 80-year-old gallerist has set her sights on Isola, a neighborhood just north of the city center that has attracted design workshops, thrift stores, and art studios.—
Denny Lee,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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All of the hotels' public spaces and facilities are accessible for guests with disabilities, except for the spa, which is only partially accessible.—
Alexandra Cheney,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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Bad Bunny addresses whether his new album was partially inspired by Kendall Jenner relationship Bad Bunny even had to put just his tongue on the ice cream and hold it there to cool it.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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In the time since the company was founded, online discourse has hardly become more empathetic, and America’s divisions haven’t healed.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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At the other end of Eilean Mòr, past a mossy Celtic cross standing like a lighthouse at the island’s tallest point, Sandy showed us the Cave of Saint Cormac, its opening hardly more than four feet high, where eighth-century monks used to retreat for periods of secluded contemplation.—
Leslie Jamison,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Superficially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficially. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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