"on the surface" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "on the surface",
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "on the surface",
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        {
          "ref": "2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):",
          "text": "On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town (\"twinned with Chernobyl\"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.",
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      "glosses": [
        "apparently, outwardly; superficially"
      ],
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        [
          "apparently",
          "apparently"
        ],
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          "outwardly",
          "outwardly"
        ],
        [
          "superficially",
          "superficially"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "at first glance"
        },
        {
          "word": "at first sight"
        },
        {
          "word": "on the face of it"
        },
        {
          "word": "ostensibly"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the surface"
}

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      },
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    {
      "word": "at first glance"
    },
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      "word": "at first sight"
    },
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      "word": "on the face of it"
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    {
      "word": "ostensibly"
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