All 7 Uses of
apparent
in
The Tipping Point
- Goudsmit thinks that this was an early HIV epidemic, and that somehow the virus got into the hospital, and was spread from child to child by the then, apparently common, practice of using the same needles over and over again for blood transfusions or injections of antibiotics.†
Chpt 1apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- They assume that someone else will make the call, or they assume that because no one else is acting, the apparent problem — the seizure-like sounds from the other room, the smoke from the door — isn't really a problem.†
Chpt 1
- To capture this apparent paradox, Granovetter coined a marvelous phrase: the strength of weak ties.†
Chpt 2
- Alpert, apparently, found it exhilarating.†
Chpt 2 *apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- The first is that little things can, apparently, make as much of a difference as big things.†
Chpt 2
- Four hoodlums confront a man with apparent psychological problems.†
Chpt 4
- There is a second potential Tipping Point on the stickiness question that becomes apparent if you go back and look again at what happens to teens when they start smoking.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so