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at a glance

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at a glance

(idiomatic) Upon cursory examination; at a guess.
At a glance it seems that he is a nice guy, but upon digging deeper the truth emerges.
This report is certainly not comprehensive; it is more of a "Marketing Division at a glance".

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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. James Thurber

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance. Martin Gardner

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. Harriet Martineau

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. Aristotle

Anyone who understands algebraic notation, reads at a glance in an equation results reached arithmetically only with great labour and pains. Antoine Augustin Cournot

And you could see at a glance that Defalk was a simple man who wanted no more than to be brilliantly rich, admired, and unencumbered with work. His face said it so plainly: "I'm an excellent fellow. Isn't such a life no more than my proper portion?”. Michael Shea

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