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semblance

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For memorable morning hours, blue sky seemed to stretch from horizon to horizon, with close scrutiny required to spot the wispiest semblance of clouds.

The vacuum insulated travel mug keeps drinks hot for hours Maintaining some semblance of a social life these days isn’t easy.

From Eater

For the last four and a half years of his life, from 1963 until his death in April of 1968, King lived without any semblance of privacy.

From Time

If there is any sliver of consolation to be had for the Wizards, it’s that the team finally found some semblance of a spark off the bench over the weekend.

After months of patients avoiding hospitals and clinics for fear of viral exposure, immunizations are coming online that promise to return society, and the drug industry, to some semblance of normal.

From Fortune

And any semblance of normality that had previously existed seemed to have evaporated.

Still, amid the uncertainty the residents of Bab al-Salameh do their best to carve a semblance of order into their lives.

And it was clear we would not even maintain a semblance of friendship.

It took months, she said, for any semblance of normality to take root.

First, the Neesonesque action hero must convey some semblance of hard-earned depth, which helps older viewers identify.

He turned his eyes upon her; but no sympathy was in their beams; no belief in the semblance of her tears.

Like art, too, on its representative side, play aims at producing an imitation or semblance of something.

The imitative impulse prompting to the production of the semblance of something appears very early in child-life.

A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.

Secure in his authority, to its outward semblance he was rather indifferent.

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On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to semblance, such as: pretense, veneer, affinity, air, alikeness, and analogy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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