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What does at first blush mean?

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

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) Upon first impression or consideration; seemingly, apparently, ostensibly.
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Therefore, I will pose a question that might at first blush appear to be outside of the box.
All this is pertinent to today's headlines, for a reason that may, at first blush, seem paradoxical.
But Ello is not the Shangri-La of social networks that it might appear to be at first blush.
The dancer in front of us was, at first blush, normal enough for a goth club.
The odd thing is that the language differences the researchers discovered would seem, at first blush, to be rather benign.
However, to lay people symptoms of arsenic poisoning would appear at first blush to be a simple case of cardiac failure.

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