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• Sadly, on closer inspection none of them were found to have alien origin.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
• Even the claim of deficit reduction doesn’t hold up on closer inspection.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Aug. 2022
• What looks like diamonds but on closer inspection turns out to be little more than reams of cheap polyester?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• No Like other proposals, this one sounds good but isn’t so good on closer inspection.
  — NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Finally, even the success stories tend to fall apart on closer inspection.
  — Séverine Autesserre, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
• There are a couple of surprises on closer inspection, though, including a full-length glass roof and a large rear hatch.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2024
• However, on closer inspection, the hairstyle exudes beach wave vibes as well.
  — Melanie Paukner, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2023
• And, on closer inspection, some of the hunchbacks are actually backpacks full of seeds.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
• But on closer inspection, there seemed to be a very subtle short-term variation – a flicker that occurred every three hours.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
• Yet, on closer inspection, the raids underscored the limits of the partnership.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• But while public trust in general seems to be resilient, that finding becomes more complex on closer inspection.
  — Ars Technica, 18 Feb. 2025
• Other facts of the case that on their surface might have supported the prosecution proved murkier on closer inspection.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 3 July 2024
• Only on closer inspection does the viewer note a small photocopy of Bradley’s yearbook photo, high up amid the blackness.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• However, on closer inspection, the tech giants have made significant net additions to staff numbers over the past two years.
  — Martin Reeves, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• But on closer inspection, the article is not really about the Palestinian issue at all.
  — Michael Oren, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2023
• Solid canyon walls reveal themselves, on closer inspection, to be loose agglomerations of huge rocks, hiding crevasses as large as living rooms.
  — Kelzim, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
• But on closer inspection, modern details emerge—the flush sundeck a top the boat, curved windows on the main deck and helm area, and, almost impossibly, a fold-out beach club at the stern.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
• But on closer inspection, more attentive visitors noticed a pair of strange, tongue-in-cheek placards sandwiched between the more official-sounding ones.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• From a distance, the scenes seemed like classical interpretations of the Stations, but on closer inspection things became a little stranger.
  — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
• The colorful, celebratory surface of her work can, on closer inspection, reveal a darker message.
  — Bo Emerson, ajc, 30 Jan. 2023
• One night in a typical testing session, two scientists discover that one of the rats appears to have died, but on closer inspection, its heartbeat is strikingly robust.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
• The comparison between birth control and vaccine blood clots becomes problematic on closer inspection, experts say.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
• French designer Lucas Cambier’s Garriga Chair looks cold and blocky at first but reveals a softer side on closer inspection.
  — Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2025
• But on closer inspection, investigators identified problems with the accounts.
  — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
• Much of what couples experience as conflict is, on closer inspection, a disagreement about which interpretation of an ambiguous event is the correct one, and that disagreement is rarely settled by appeals to trust.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• Though the art at first seemed more at home at the nearby Louvre Museum, on closer inspection the female subjects sported contemporary jarring double eyes and seemed to symbolize a sort of new female vision.
  — Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
• Yet on closer inspection this was a Pyrrhic victory at best, for the court also ruled that the sole authority to apportion surpluses and shortages from the Colorado belonged to the federal government.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Here too, Russia’s hype has been shown up – claims that Russia was already operating drone swarms in major exercises three years ago turned out on closer inspection to just mean multiple drones flown by multiple operators at the same time.
  — Keir Giles, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• Shower Caddies and Plastic Bath Toys If shower caddies and bath toys regularly fall off your cleaning radar, but on closer inspection, need some care, go ahead and dedicate a dishwashing session to them.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2026
• The final painting, titled Kiss (Bones and All), features a torrent of brushstrokes in bruise-like shades of purple, blue, and black; appearing almost entirely abstract at first, the features of the actors begin to emerge on closer inspection.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2022