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This may seem hopeless at first blush; the next nearest star is 10,000 times farther away than Neptune, so even in this best-case scenario, any comets beyond our solar system would be impossibly faint.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2025
Kentucky and other states across the country have had to deal with vanity plates that at first blush appear to be problematic.
—Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
Of course, the latency situation for DDR5 isn’t as dire as that big number appears at first blush: Latency is specified in clock cycles, so that anything that cycles twice as fast requires half as much time per clock cycle, as outlined in our overview of how to buy the right RAM.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
For the author, what may sound at first blush like a macho story of man conquering nature is not so much about a feat of endurance, but rather about community.
—Taylor Haney, NPR, 18 June 2025
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2025
Kentucky and other states across the country have had to deal with vanity plates that at first blush appear to be problematic.
—Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
Of course, the latency situation for DDR5 isn’t as dire as that big number appears at first blush: Latency is specified in clock cycles, so that anything that cycles twice as fast requires half as much time per clock cycle, as outlined in our overview of how to buy the right RAM.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
For the author, what may sound at first blush like a macho story of man conquering nature is not so much about a feat of endurance, but rather about community.
—Taylor Haney, NPR, 18 June 2025
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“At first blush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20first%20blush. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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