semblance
Example Sentences
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“If you strike some semblance of success, it’s easy to say, ‘I’ll just keep iterating on this until I die, because it could never happen again,’” said Hamilton.
Who doesn’t yearn to clean up their mistakes and find some semblance of happiness, even when contentment seems so far out of reach?
From Salon
All represent some semblance of taste, an attribute that’s scampered up the ranks of desirability in the AI era.
“The company is trying to erase any semblance of the way that it used to be,” the worker said.
From Los Angeles Times
Though he’s a master manipulator, Gustav always has to compromise to get a semblance of what he wants.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.