superficially

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Adrift, alone and haunted by guilt about that incident in her past, she becomes hypnotized by Peter’s superficially rational-sounding ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The analysis confirms what those of us who grew up on the superficially quiet Palos Verdes Peninsula have always known: It’s only a matter of time until the turbulent hillside crumbles into the ocean.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

The statement said the the property "appeared to have been searched superficially" and cash was found in the couple's bedroom.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's unique, but superficially bland, ice giants.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

Having considered this matter very superficially, historians on the one hand admire these deeds of his, and on the other condemn the main cause of them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli