See seem on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "seem", "tags": [ "canonical" ] }, { "form": "seems", "tags": [ "third-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "seemed", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "seemed", "tags": [ "past", "participle" ] }, { "form": "seeming", "tags": [ "present", "participle" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Intransitive verbs", "Verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "It seems unlikely that they will remember your name after meeting you once." }, { "text": "As odd as it may seem, the girl's best friend is an eighty year old man." }, { "text": "It was a terrible night, but somehow it doesn't seem so bad this morning." }, { "text": "It is still raining on him, but he doesn't seem to notice." }, { "text": "The bad smells did not seem to bother them." }, { "text": "The young man seemed to have forgotten all his promises." }, { "text": "They really seemed to be enjoying what they were doing." }, { "text": "The changes seem to suggest that the police have new information." }, { "text": "It seems to me that we ought to try again." }, { "text": "It seemed like forever, but I think it got there in about 12 to 15 minutes." }, { "text": "It seemed like a crazy idea; it had never been done before." }, { "text": "You seem like a very nice guy." }, { "text": "The very air he was breathing seemed as if it were on fire." } ], "glosses": [ "The way something seems to be is the way you think it is when you look at it, hear about it, think about it, etc." ], "raw_tags": [ "intransitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/siːm/" }, { "audio": "en-us-seem.ogg", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "homophones": [ "seam" ] } ], "word": "seem" }
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