cursory in the PONS Dictionary

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Remarkably, her death was marked in the newspapers of the time with the most cursory of death notices and no more.
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Without illustrations, and with only the most cursory descriptions of the 2,000 objects listed, the catalog has little value.
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Although chain referral sampling has been widely used in qualitative social research, the procedures and problems entailed in its use have received only cursory attention.
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After what seems to have been a somewhat cursory examination the ship was granted pratique and passengers allowed to disembark.
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The cursory dorsal mantle groove line is dissimilar to the shells general color pattern, completely devoid of lines, thus easily perceivable.
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The backgrounds are cursory, with the interiors showing only slight attention to geometric perspective.
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In fact many glider infantry units were simply converted from regular infantry units with only cursory training.
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The online review was cursory in the sense that it did not realize the expansion of the online version.
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There was no announcement of the purpose of the tests, and only cursory press releases.
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In order to gain cursory insight into the differences in these shocks, a shock polar diagram can be used.
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