to all appearances
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There was no further U.S. coverage of the controversy until the BBC podcast appeared in 2020, and to all appearances Gibney continued to live peacefully in Florida retirement.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
I still admire Obama enormously but in the end, it’s Jimmy Carter who, to all appearances, deserves our praise.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2022
For three decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, oil- and uranium-producing Kazakhstan was, to all appearances, the most prosperous and stable of its former Central Asian republics.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022
Stuart Copperman was, to all appearances, an old-fashioned pediatrician.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2019
The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearances he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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