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This mid-Cretaceous omnivore was still actively growing and may have sported a coat of soft, fuzzy filaments, giving it a physical appearance similar to that of a small lamb.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026 Some transgender people in the state will experience a similar incongruence between their physical appearance and the gender marker on their state ID.—David Williams, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026 Genetic sequencing tools have become precise enough — and affordable enough — to revisit specimens that were classified decades ago based on physical appearance alone.—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026 But physical appearance is not the only thing that defines them, as therians adopt animal-like attitudes such as walking or running on all fours, sniffing, howling, meowing, and sometimes biting.—Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for physical appearance