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Act the part of in public, usually alluding to a performance on stage. For example, She got wonderful reviews when she appeared as Portia . This idiom uses appear in the sense of “to come before the public,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.

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Previous head writer Chris Chibnall introduced Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctor in 2017, before Davies chose Gatwa to appear as the first black Time Lord from 2023.

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She goes against his precepts and disobeys his orders — they appear as onscreen italic titles — and he gets stroppy, as a father would.

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Alan Cumming, James Marsden and Rebecca Romijn of the “X-Men” world — all Marvel newcomers — will appear as well.

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The agencies also fabricated reports that made children appear as if they were abandoned and put up for adoption; and intentionally gave children wrong identities.

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Met Office in saying,the spiral probably came about due to the rocket’s “frozen exhaust plume... spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting the sunlight, causing it to appear as a spiral in the sky.”

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