semblance
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Since then, they've been plotting how to get their comrade home so they can confirm his identity beyond doubt through DNA testing and offer his family a semblance of closure.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
Elsewhere, a megaphone-wielding leader herded dozens of black cats in the style of artist Gary Baseman into some semblance of order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
And as things returned to a semblance of normalcy, Ophie began to wonder more and more about the life and death of the mysterious Clara.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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