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What does at first glance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word at first glance? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (modal) After only a superficial examination or review
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Midway between the hotel and the theatre I passed a series of shopfronts which, at first glance, appeared to have been converted into squats.
Some of the designs seem, at first glance, a little too complex and just too plain clever for their or New York's good.
The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object.
I don't follow the video game industry much, but at first glance it looks like Sega is making a good move.
A cube at first glance shows the inside, and at second glance, the outside, protruding convexly into space.
What is at first glance surprising is that so few mergers and acquisitions of banks have fallen into the antitrust net.

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