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at first blush

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. at first blush, when first seenadverb

    as a first impression

    "at first blush the offer seemed attractive"

Wiktionary

  1. at first blushadverb

    seemingly, apparently, ostensibly

ChatGPT

  1. at first blush

    "At first blush" is an idiomatic expression that means upon first seeing or considering something, the initial impression or immediate reaction to something. It indicates a preliminary or superficial observation or analysis.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of at first blush in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of at first blush in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of at first blush in a Sentence

  1. South Carolina:

    I don’t expect to get 218 on the first blush. What we present, there’s gonna be some gnashing of teeth, every dollar up here has an advocate.

  2. Mark Warner:

    This is one more example of one of the President's closest allies lying about their ties to Russia and Russians, in this first blush looking, just remarkable that you have the President's personal lawyer still dealing on a Trump Tower project through the whole campaign, through 2017.

  3. Jeremy Tillman:

    At first blush, individuals may find it reassuring that their data is being collected and processed by faceless corporations rather than their neighbor next door, however, there are two caveats to this logic, he added. First, while your neighbor may not be personally collecting your data, he may very well be the data analyst working at the company that does. In other words, there are distinct individuals within each company whose entire job is to analyze, evaluate, and interact with user data. Ten or more trackers that collect personal data were found on 21.3 percent of the sites covered by the study. CUNNING MALWARE SPREADS, GOES AFTER YOUR BANK ACCOUNT Google Analytics and Facebook Connect are some of the most prominent trackers, according to Ghostery. Google Analytics is in the top ten of the most widely used trackers based on the various services the Internet giant uses, including Google Analytics and Google Analytics Adsense. Facebook Connect is next with three. Google Analytics was found on almost half of all loaded pages at 46.4 percent, while Facebook Connect was on more than a fifth, coming in at 21.9 percent. Other companies that showed include comScore and Twitter. And Google Analytics’s not easy keeping tabs on these trackers since many are n’t installed by the website owner, according to Jeremy Tillman.


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