Definition of "at a glance" []

• Upon cursory examination; an abbreviated review. (phrase)

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• "That way, instead of frantically calling telemarketers all over the country, a campaign manager could simply log on to my site and see at a glance what capacity each vendor had available."
• "So for a bird known only from a handful of subfossils, the sternum can be an eloquent datum, revealing at a glance whether the species was capable of flight."
• "The wildest and most brutish customs were practiced; sexual appetites aroused at a glance were gratified down some deserted shaftway; children of seven or ten who never saw daylight during the winter months were used and abused and paid a pittance by the miners to help drag away their tubs of coal; pregnant women drew coal cars like horses and even gave birth in the dark black caverns."