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apparent English

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apparent

If something is apparent, it is easy to see, realise or understand. When she was nine, for no apparent reason, she began to dislike the classes. They had found many useful ideas, some immediately apparent but others that took more time to think through. appearing or seeming to be a certain way. The difference was more apparent than real. The government's apparent lack of concern for the poor is very upsetting.

apparent

(= evident, manifest, patent, plain) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields evident hostility manifest disapproval patent advantages made his meaning plain it is plain that he is no reactionary in plain view (= ostensible, seeming) appearing as such but not necessarily so for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies the ostensible truth of their theories his seeming honesty

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  • What words describe something, such as a feeling or quality, that someone or something seems to have?

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Simple sentences

It was apparent that there was no way out.
So a new problem soon became apparent.
The fact is apparent to everybody.
The fact is apparent to the most casual observer.
Her disappointment was apparent to everyone.
It's in times like these that the character of a person becomes apparent.
It's quite apparent that you don't want to do this for me.
The islanders are being slaughtered for no apparent reason.
The fact that you disappear for weeks with no apparent reason bothers me.
Studying a table of Russian paradigms, Mary unconsciously knitted her brows and scratched her head. She marvelled that most Russian six-year-olds master the noun declensions with little apparent effort.
The rivalry between them was soon apparent.
It was apparent to everybody that our team was stronger.
It was apparent that someone had taken the money by mistake.
It was apparent that he did not understand what I had said.
It was the midnight of Friday, 13th; nothing of ill omen was apparent.
The danger was not apparent.
People tend to only compliment you on your language ability when it's apparent that you still don't quite sound like a native speaker.

Movie subtitles

I want to apologise for badgering you over apparent discrepancies in your CV.
Loss of blood, and apparent amnesia.
Well, if Ellman shows antagonism towards Nolan, without apparent cause would he react in the same way to?.
Your Honor, it must be apparent this is not normal conduct.
Quite apparent, and the State has no wish to take advantage.
Is it not therefore apparent that such is my wish?
That's apparent.
I remembered them without any apparent order or significance.
As apparent as all that?
There is every apparent reason why I should.
Navigator reports local apparent noon 1146, 14 minutes from now, sir.
That should be apparent.
It was apparent that Captain Nemo had discovered what mankind has always sought -- the veritable dynamic power of the universe.
These things happen without any apparent reason.
I'm sorry to say this, but it's become apparent that you're lacking in certain leadership qualities.
It's apparent Miss Bishop wants him more than I do.
It's only now that the strategic importance of the situation becomes apparent.
Though the apparent method of the crime was brutal, I'm convinced that the crime itself was intelligently planned.
Yet out of this apparent chaos, these people bring tomorrows show, fresh and new and gay and hot, no matter how tangled the skein of their own lives may be.
It was apparent that Captain Nemo had discovered what mankind has always sought, the veritable dynamic power of the universe.
Another odd thing. This apparent paralysis of the left arm and the respiratory centre.
They are not readily apparent to the clinical practitioner, but in most cases the etiology.
Science is better equipped today than ever.to penetrate all apparent mysteries.
Apparent?
It has been made apparent in many ways.
That's very apparent.
That's quite apparent.
Marry, my lord, lest by a multitude. the new-healed wound of malice should break out. as well the fear of harm as harm apparent. in my opinion, ought to be prevented.
And so, I think, in all. Yet, since it is but green. it should be put to no apparent likelihood of breach. which haply by much company might be urged.
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. that, his apparent open guilt apart - I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife - his life was free from all suspicion.
Hours later, the two titanic craft were still locked together. in an apparent death grip. on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. nearly 1200 feet below the surface.
I saw the patience, the innocence, the apparent meekness with which the temporary survivors of Hiroshima adapted to a fate so unjust that the imagination, usually so fertile, is silent before it.
On Day 12, necrosis of the graft tissue is apparent.
A new variation suddenly occurs for no apparent reason.
It seems to me quite apparent what happened here.
Her apparent indifference to the anxieties of Michel. He needed.

News and current affairs

It will be years before the full magnitude of President Bush's deception is apparent.
So his apparent pragmatism should come as no surprise.
Or will America's apparent inward turn be as brief as it was following Vietnam?
The apparent conflict between doing justice and preserving peace may be resolved through international law.
Another apparent problem is that EMU member states - at least until now - do not coordinate their economic policies effectively.
The negative consequences of this mistaken vision very quickly became apparent.
Whatever the merits of a common currency, those in Europe deliberating about adopting the Euro should consider whether to tie their fortunes to an institutional arrangement whose flaws are increasingly apparent.
The longer-term effects of early learning are less apparent but more profound.
Almost every reason for toleration's apparent fall into disrepute concerns Islam.
Now, the widening rift between the US and Japan has become starkly apparent.
What accounts for this apparent indifference - also evident among European politicians - to the looming political risks in Britain?
The spirit of hope in the country is palpable, though some older people, who saw earlier moments of apparent relaxation of authoritarian rule come and go, remain cautious.
What explains this apparent contradiction?
Signs of Hamas's shifting perspective are becoming increasingly apparent.
Egypt's heir apparent Gamal Mubarak followed suit in the fourth week of the fighting by heading a 70-member delegation on a solidarity visit to Beirut.
On a recent visit organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the coexistence of entrenched tradition and rapid transformation was starkly apparent.
The toll taken by years of tough economic sanctions is also apparent.
The effort that this has inspired to create more innovative learning environments was apparent last April, during a visit to the Tohoku schools destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.
Gates, however, is due to step down from his post shortly, which is unfortunate, because the Obama administration's apparent lack of any explicit Asia strategy means that Gates's reassurances might not reassure for very long.
Critics of Europe's apparent lack of enthusiasm for fracking miss two key points.
Indeed, with America's economy in apparent freefall, Trichet is threatening euro-zone trade unions with pre-emptive interest-rate hikes unless they behave as he sees fit.
The problems in the US economy and financial system have been apparent for years.
If so, does enlarging the euro's membership really serve Europe's apparent goal of maximizing economic integration without necessarily achieving full political union?
But it is apparent that an increasingly assertive China is unwittingly reinforcing America's role in Asia, restoring US primacy as the implicit guarantor of security and stability in the region.
He then warned that the revival of anti-Semitism in France - apparent, for example, in the anxiety over the Holocaust's inclusion in the French school curriculum - indicates a crisis of democracy.
Fears are mounting, as official and fundamentalist religious forces now seem to operate with impunity - and the apparent support of local police, the ruling Bangladeshi National Party, and local authorities.
These risks - most apparent in today's chaos-ridden Middle East - raise troubling questions about the security of nuclear assets in volatile countries everywhere.

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