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Discover LudwigThe phrase "appear to him" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing someone's perception or impression of a situation or person from another's perspective.
Example: "The situation may appear to him as more complicated than it actually is."
Alternatives: "seem to him" or "look to him".
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That's how it may appear to him.
He can live quite nicely, according to Sextus, by following custom and accepting things as they appear to him.
Does Novalis betray her memory in his poetry, having her disembodied spirit appear to him at her graveside?
He is in a position where it might appear to him that he can do what he likes.
That, in turn, might appear to him like bowing to pressure from the mob, few fans having welcomed McLeish's defection from Birmingham.
Curiously, it was the same skills that led him to discover extinction that made evolution appear to him preposterous, an affair as unlikely as alchemy.
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They had appeared to him, too.
The war, when it came, appeared to him a relief.
Smith claimed Jesus appeared to him in upstate New York.
A woman had appeared to him in a waking dream.
Merle, he said, had appeared to him in a dream and urged him to carry on.
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