How to Use despite appearances in a Sentence
despite appearances
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Yet despite appearances, staying late rarely equals higher productivity.
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Alliance Manchester Business School,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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This reassured me that, despite appearances, God was in charge of the situation and was being reflected by everyone involved.
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Nancy Mullen,
Christian Science Monitor,
5 Nov. 2025
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Large language model AIs like the one under the hood of ChatGPT don’t have actual personalities, despite appearances.
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Jeffrey Young,
The Conversation,
23 July 2026
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Assaf maintains that the company has happily steered clear of the big-money sports and, despite appearances, has no interest in NIL Club being used as a workaround for revenue-sharing caps established under the House settlement.
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Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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Abigail Marsh, a psychology and neuroscience professor at Georgetown University, says that despite appearances, people are becoming more compassionate.
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Ronnie Li,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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