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
When the slumming Ponce, who lives somewhere else and who picked up a semblance of education, tries to explain that all earthly agriculture is reliant on bees, he gets blowback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The vote was widely derided by democracy monitors abroad, but China supports it as recreating a semblance of normality, analysts say.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 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
They stand as still as statues, their masks long since melded to their features, any semblance of emotion a distant memory.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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