semblance
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What West Ham do have which Tottenham do not, however, is some semblance of form.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Maintaining a semblance of privacy is increasingly difficult in the age of social media, and how much we share with our unmarried partner about our financial affairs is on a need-to-know basis.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
“If you strike some semblance of success, it’s easy to say, ‘I’ll just keep iterating on this until I die, because it could never happen again,’” said Hamilton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Operation Epic Fury shares DNA with a lineage of similarly buzzy code names throughout military history, but generally speaking, they typically maintained some semblance of consultant-speak restraint.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
Once again he had the semblance of a home and a new world to explore.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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