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The phrase "a glancing knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a superficial or brief understanding of a subject.
Example: "While I have a glancing knowledge of the topic, I would need to do more research to provide a comprehensive analysis."
Alternatives: "a cursory understanding" or "a fleeting awareness."
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Everyone with even a glancing knowledge of the Broadway songbook is familiar with the number.
The furnishings of that mind will look familiar to anyone with a glancing knowledge of Christian philosophy in the 20th century.
Nobody is spared, of course, but no one with a glancing knowledge of current or past events would argue that it is evenly distributed.
To anyone with a glancing knowledge of culture, "Godot" is now almost as familiar a brand as Tide detergent or MTV.
Trafficking in irresponsible inferences and unsupported conclusions, the filmmaker Brent Leung offers himself as suave docent through a globe-trotting pseudo-investigation that should raise the hackles of anyone with even a glancing knowledge of the basic rules of reasoning.
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Indeed, the California Supreme Court made only a glancing citation to Kyles v. Whitley, the key U.S. Supreme Court case that articulated this point about imputed knowledge.
Take a glancing interest.
a glancing moment.
Luckily it was a glancing blow".
He cannot absorb even a glancing blow.
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