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How to Use apparent in a Sentence

apparent

adjective
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  • From the beginning, it was apparent that she was not an ordinary child.
  • He started yelling and throwing things for no apparent reason.
  • Nowhere is that more apparent than in her writing about Bollywood.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
  • Pasternack’s influence is apparent in the menu’s way with seafoods and pastas.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • The Moon will close the apparent distance between the two until in one moment the starlight will be gone!
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
  • Naturally, people had a lot to say about this apparent self-conscious vocal change.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 19 June 2024
  • The biggest difference, and one that is apparent even at a glance, is the wheelbase, which has been stretched by 5.1 inches.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 June 2024
  • But there is a price: accepting secrecy in government, even during times of apparent peace.
    — Michael Szalma, Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2024
  • The anxiety is apparent at all levels of the party, from the activists who power campaign infrastructure to the donors who fund it to the vaunted elders who bless it.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 1 July 2024
  • The contrast with former president Donald Trump was apparent.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 29 June 2024
  • Secret Service agents responded swiftly to protect the former president and shot the apparent attacker to death.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • This is a time in her career when every second counts, and while her glam squad could remove all physical signs of the rapper burning candles at both ends, the intensity of her schedule was still apparent.
    — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 1 July 2024
  • But the fraught nature of those ties was apparent at the G-20 summit.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Evan White to the Braves, in another apparent salary dump.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This was apparent at an early preview, when Killam emerged as one of the Knights of Ni.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The reality of the world was very apparent and just hit me at every turn.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Last year in court, Tardy chalked the apparent discrepancies up to poor word choice.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Nowhere is that more apparent than in the top five priorities list for 2024.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Part of the apparent rapid warming is because 2023 began in the tail end of an unusual string of three back-to-back La Niña events.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The last of three people shot in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday in East Price Hill has died.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The Trabant engine came in hot from the east at around 700 feet, then lazily circled over the sleeping city with no apparent plan.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Women and children in apparent distress could be heard in the background.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The jeweler said this was most apparent in the lines resembling rays of sunlight that project out from the medals’ center.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • That did not stop them from going at it after Crosby chased Akers about 25 yards down the field in an apparent attempt to strip the ball.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • As good as all that sounds, the size of the remaining issue is easily apparent.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Perhaps nowhere are the pros and cons of AI for businesses as apparent as in the media industry.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • All of the qualities are apparent in this Frenchman’s work for Christian Dior.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Cox died later that year of an apparent blood clot in December 2019.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The man was killed by the Secret Service after allegedly firing the shots in an apparent assassination attempt on Trump.
    — Dan Mangan,rebecca Picciotto,josephine Rozzelle,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 14 July 2024

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