first blush

Example Sentences

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At first blush, ChatGPT provided a useful first cut even though, for this exercise, I only analyzed three of the six plans that met my criteria.

From MarketWatch

"At first blush, they thought it was just a lot of individual initiative from Chinese companies," he says.

From BBC

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward.

From The Wall Street Journal

At first blush, Casey Means seems like the last person Christian conservatives would want as the Surgeon General.

From Salon

At first blush, hockey and Harvard appear to go together about as well as a concussion and a Nobel Prize.

From Los Angeles Times