cursory
Example Sentences
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After the hearing, he offered cursory thanks to his policy adviser, Donald Kohn, for helping prepare his testimony.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
"The man on the door outside only took a cursory look at my ticket from what must have been six feet away," he wrote.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
Anyone with even a cursory understanding of the aircraft, or simply the ability to use Google and follow basic facts, could have arrived at that conclusion.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
Officials have to try to turn the administration’s cursory tariff threats on social media into formal trade deals.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
Did the ghosts of Levantine girls haunt those cursory checkups, suggested by the fragility of my collarbone, or the birdcall of my small, congested lungs?
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing cursory
Grade 12, List 1
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