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"a cursory" is a correct and usable phrase in English writing.
You can use it to describe a quick or superficial glance, look, or examination of something. For example, "I gave the report a cursory read, but I didn't have time to analyze it in detail."
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He gave each pane a cursory rub.
A cursory nod encouraged.
They all eat a cursory dinner.
"There is a cursory review.
"No more than a cursory" one.
Instead, we get a cursory deliberation.
Very few justice-seekers get more than a cursory hearing.
A cursory glace shows that Hitler's anti-Semitisim is omnipresent.
A cursory look at society's distribution of wealth and resources?
So, at least, the exchange appears on a cursory reading.
The message itself is a cursory invitation to a banquet.
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