semblance
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Bill Essayli said he hoped the sentence “gives some semblance of healing and closure to this defendant’s victims.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
There seems to be a stylistic monopoly at work among the streamers of “original content” that renders innovative storytelling—and any semblance of cinema—invalid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
While any semblance of normal life has been shattered for some, it is tentatively resuming for others.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
“It’s an agreement to return to some semblance of normalcy. We are still in a world of uncertainty. In other words, we are not sure what’s going to happen in 60 days.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Only after laying a semblance of it on the page can a writer free up the cognitive resources needed to make the sentence grammatical, graceful, and, most important, transparent to the reader.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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