seem
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With gowned mannequins hung in all directions, and silvery galaxies shimmering here and there, we seem to have left the double helix for the double staircases of the Ziegfeld Follies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
She said, “I seem to have lost my way!”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
"It's happened multiple times before, it doesn't seem that extraordinary."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Fewer big Hollywood movies seem to have been invited to the film festival this year, but there are still interesting and ambitious indies worth toasting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“It does seem so!” said Father, not catching the joke.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
After Trailseeker, the notion of an electric Subaru still seems a little hazy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“The nature of these layoffs are so bleak that it seems as though our executives don’t see a way forward,” said Ariane Lange, an investigative reporter at the Sacramento Bee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
As its small cast obsesses over a fabled alien encounter and seems willing to stop at nothing to find release in a divine being, be careful, “The Pineapple” argues, of the personal Eden you seek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Both Gallaghers performed at Worthy Farm as solo acts during their years apart but it seems they will not return there together, in 2027 at least.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It seems stupid to even say something like that.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
"I never thought this was a goal that you could have. It seemed like something on the TV you see Americans doing," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Yet he also seemed reluctant to take the necessary steps.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
In addition to his father, one of Dhani’s mentors was George’s friend and latter-day creative partner Jeff Lynne, who for all his musical genius has never seemed particularly comfortable onstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Beyond her education and experience, she seemed completely unintimidated—by anything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Nine, at this point, was quite irritated with the half-dead fox, who seemed not only to have failed to follow their clearly mapped-out plan but to have forgotten it altogether.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
A pair of women, seeming doppelgängers of Ari’s roommate and a second guest, suddenly appear; as inexplicably, the host vanishes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
And despite the situation in Russia seeming to get worse by the day, she said she still feels hopeful.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
A floating 'island' in a reservoir in British Columbia has turned up about 20 miles from where it was last spotted, after seeming to vanish in July.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
It also means that as a business strategy, refreshers can chase every single trend that comes up online with seeming ease.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Doppler’s example returned to Mendel: there was music behind noise, laws behind seeming lawlessness, and only a profoundly artificial experiment—creating hybrids out of purebred strains carrying simple traits—could reveal these underlying patterns.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
