- present tense form of appear (3rd person singular).
appears
Example Sentences
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The disruptive possibility of open-weight models appears likely to linger, especially for OpenAI and Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Jacob Frenkel, a former U.S. attorney, said it appears clear a focus of the investigation into Walter’s businesses is to determine whether the restatements were just errors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Palace of Versailles, south of the French capital Paris, appears as an island of trees surrounded by brown fields in these images.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
One appears in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, while the other was published in Nature Metabolism in June.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
A guy wearing paint-splattered clothes appears behind me, a cup of Starbucks in his hand.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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