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Recent Examples of superficiality
Let go of your superficiality and lingering worries when the full moon in Sagittarius peaks a few days later.
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Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
What now? Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22)
Sick of superficialities?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Before long, the two become friends, moving beyond the silly superficialities of their business deal and helping each other realize some deeper truths.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The song contrasts authentic love with the superficiality often found in relationships, urging the listener to let their guard down and accept something pure.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
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Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
What now? Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22)
Sick of superficialities?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Before long, the two become friends, moving beyond the silly superficialities of their business deal and helping each other realize some deeper truths.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The song contrasts authentic love with the superficiality often found in relationships, urging the listener to let their guard down and accept something pure.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for superficiality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superficiality
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The resulting film is equal parts shaggy, quixotic road movie and Malickian spiritual ponderance, gazing at the celestial patterns above while also too drunk on them to see the shallowness of their promise.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Superficiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficiality. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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