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semblance

[sem-bluhns] / ˈsɛm bləns /


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It felt as if Newcastle had rediscovered a semblance of momentum in the final throes of a draining campaign after picking up seven points from a possible nine.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

The Defense Department had validated that Anthropic had the industry’s best tech and its closest semblance to principles.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 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

He still wore the semblance of his worldly body.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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