She hadn't seen Graveyard so much as smile in . . .
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If they so much as touch each other, they crash.
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You'd wince if they so much as cut their finger.
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This one isn't a tip so much as a warning.
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It's not about looking back so much as looking away.
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He does not make voters angry so much as indifferent.
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AliExpress is not a destination so much as a hobby.
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He admires and loves you so much, as do I!
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Instead, there is not so much as a flickering light.
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And you can only control so much as a parent.
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It wasn't greed so much as an act of devotion.
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They are not wrong so much as they are incomplete.
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Only, it's not a trot so much as a sprint.
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It's why I loved Myst so much as an academic.
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It doesn't change the law so much as enforce it.
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I've never liked weed so much as a social thing.
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The evidence is not erased so much as rationalized away.
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LML: I don't look so much as calculating the impact.
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He never admitted to so much as a clerical error.
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Wizards don't hate muggles so much as they hate themselves.
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The legal letter doesn't read so much as a shot across the bow for a lawsuit against Stephen A. Smith (despite Odom's hashtags), so much as a request for ESPN to recognize Smith's inappropriate comments.
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He's not a traitor so much as he is a dupe.
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DeNiro's Dick Kelly isn't a character so much as a constant
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I was not trying to kill myself so much as vanish.
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Few journalists have even so much as touched a 5G device.
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Nor does he even so much as mention modern monetary theory.
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This does not make them Kremlin loyalists, so much as realists.
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However, nuanced policy difference probably didn't matter so much as personality.
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Democracies, in this telling, don't die so much as they decline.
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It's not about royalty so much as it is about love.
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These women aren't being feminists so much as they're being sexualized.
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His response: It's not the what so much as the why.
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Right now, there's nothing so much as a placeholder at X.com.
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Nothing naturally alters a woman's body so much as a pregnancy.
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They don't have obvious "stories" so much as suggestions of stories.
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His campaign website doesn't so much as mention people with disabilities.
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The result resembles nothing so much as an advertisement for Mrs.
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I didn't buy so much as a new pair of socks.
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So, why do people hate them so much as a couple?
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And anyone who so much as accepts you isn't Christian either.
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What unites Black Mirror isn't subject matter so much as tone.
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Not so much as a weapon, as a tool for intimidation.
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It's illegal to own so much as a bald eagle feather.
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Sort of and yet not so much, as it turns out.
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It wasn't divide and conquer so much as divide and destroy.
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But those observations aren't insights so much as obligatory comic beats.
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More often, though, the arguments aren't dramatized so much as transcribed.
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The problem is not the content so much as the container.
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Kobach says that it was not Huntington so much as Prop.
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And what McConnell has displayed isn't mastery so much as bullying.
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He wouldn't give them choreography so much as patterns and ideas.
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He wasn't ridiculed so much as ignored, and he was lonely.
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She didn't doubt his existence so much as question his intentions.
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Anne wants nothing so much as to be rid of it.
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It was true that we hadn't so much as held hands.
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Victor Hugo's novel is not source material so much as touchstone.
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Washington these days resembles nothing so much as an unruly sandbox.
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He doesn't run the government so much as fight with it.
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Nothing living, not so much as a blade of grass anywhere.
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Przeworski believes that American democracy isn't collapsing so much as deteriorating.
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I never heard anyone so much as mention BlackMattersUS at the event.
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The story isn't the image itself, so much as what it represents.
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At best, these areas aren't a priority so much as an afterthought.
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This isn't a tour of the Midwest so much as poverty tourism.
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It is not the English kind so much as the Latin kind.
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It cannot so much as name a post office without a vote.
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But I wasn't apologizing to the driver so much as to Jen.
|
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If eyes so much as shift, the town's balance will be destroyed.
|
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Meredith wasn't a gold digger so much as she was an opportunist.
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MG: I jumped around career-wise so much as a younger person.
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They're archetypes, not characters so much as cover versions of other characters.
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It wasn't the people, in other words, so much as the policy.
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The best pieces in the show aren't representations so much as simulations.
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Bloody moves, if need be, without so much as a second thought.
|
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Not really a huge dig at McGregor so much as the media.
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It is not a midlife crisis so much as a lifelong passion.
|
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It wasn't exactly a clash of ideas so much as a clang.
|
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Indeed, he appears not to want to govern so much as rule.
|
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"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence," Leonardo da Vinci one said.
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But then I'm not here to meditate, so much as to breaditate.
|
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The LIFX+ isn't aimed to replace, so much as augment, that functionality.
|
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It's powerful because it's not an invective so much as a diagnosis.
|
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In all her childhood, she never so much as smelled the ocean.
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You don't watch an episode so much as get abducted into it.
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He looked up to her so much as did all of us.
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It wasn't the hardware or the execution, so much as the idea.
|
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Mugabe did not damage the economy so much as he erased it.
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Wouldn't they shrug and move on, without so much as a WTF?
|
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Germany, the world champion, did not so much as drop a point.
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He had not gotten so much as a speeding ticket in decades.
|
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Not because they like them so much as because they have to.
|
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It doesn't tell jokes so much as let people be authentically witty.
|
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The music he makes there isn't about hits so much as history.
|
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This is not a controversy so much as a point of discussion.
|
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These are not luxury items so much as they are indulgence items.
|
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Before I Fall isn't real so much as a hermetically sealed experiment.
|
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But Naruhito never appeared in public on so much as a date.
|
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I don't find these kinds of remarks offensive so much as informative.
|
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"I don't have emotions so much as I describe them," he confides.
|
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She doesn't write dialogue, for example, so much as she writes repartee.
|
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It doesn't yield heat so much as roundness, filling in the backdrop.
|
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Movies do not begin and end so much as they loiter onscreen.
|
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If you so much as walk, they start banging on the walls.
|
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And I never set out to affirm so much as to negate.
|
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They didn't hear a happy marriage so much as a shotgun wedding.
|
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Kovgan's film doesn't reproduce this so much as find a vivid equivalent.
|
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We don't need rare innovations so much as old-fashioned political tools.
|
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The founder doesn't dominate the network so much as manage the community.
|
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The biggest shifts, however, may not be structural so much as cultural.
|
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He can be gross, but perhaps not so much as was Lyndon Johnson.
|
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The words aren't really about that, except as so much as they're introspective.
|
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It is a movie that people did not make so much as survive.
|
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Indeed, for Democrats, demographics might not be destiny so much as a mirage.
|
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"He promptly ran off without so much as a thank you," authorities quipped.
|
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She doesn't distance herself from her past hits so much as reinvent them.
|
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They don't even so much as have to engage a real estate brokerage.
|
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That's not necessarily founder ego so much as it is just founder focused.
|
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It's not a matter of names, in other words, so much as fit.
|
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Ryan isn't choosing where to go, he says, so much as accepting invitations.
|
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He wasn't cooking for me so much as he was cooking for everyone!
|
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke Instagram when she so much as raised the question.
|
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Mercer isn't a character so much as a handful of loosely associated scenes.
|
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The photo wasn't an issue so much as what Jenner captioned it is.
|
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But the emotions aren't grief and nostalgia so much as alarm and sympathy.
|
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They don't reject information from the media so much as instinctually distrust it.
|
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I wouldn't call it Star Wars fatigue so much as Star Wars malaise.
|
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It doesn't matter so much as long as users just keep posting, right?
|
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Ms Nyero never so much as mentions any of these first-world luxuries.
|
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"Jordan today doesn't lack plans, so much as the ability to implement them."
|
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People are not writing worse so much as writing and publishing far more.
|
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In other words, no other angler can so much as touch the pole.
|
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He also doesn't consider World/Inferno a band so much as a collective.
|
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" It's not a struggle for them, so much as a "bewilderment and complaint.
|
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We're told the rapper hasn't so much as said thanks to the facility.
|
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They don't have core traits so much as BuzzFeed personality quizzes for souls.
|
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Our bodychecks no longer crush our opponent so much as mildly jostle them.
|
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NC: It wasn't about selecting artists for me so much as selecting artwork.
|
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I do not mean split personalities so much as I mean split narratives.
|
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Bought and paid for without so much as a soul to fill it.
|
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Canary Islands, climate change isn't an issue of ideology so much as an
|
|
One horse in attendance, however, will not so much as break a sweat.
|
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India, not so much as yet, but maybe one day it'll be there.
|
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The two men did not so much as glance sideways at each other.
|
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But those classifications are also inadequate, so much as to be downright misleading.
|
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Music isn't the whole picture so much as one tile in a mosaic.
|
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These wouldn't be particularly brave steps, so much as matters of basic ethics.
|
|
This represented, in so much as is possible, Rihanna with her guard down.
|
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The bus suggests nothing so much as a nursery of grown-up infants.
|
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To make so much as a dent requires hard, sustained work, and expertise.
|
|
I think Russia is not involved so much as we thought about this.
|
|
SG: No, it wasn't that so much as exoticizing people in other countries.
|
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It never once makes the connection to actual suffering so much as savagery.
|
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It's hardly ever a question of if so much as it is when.
|
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He does not impose shapes with his chiseling so much as enhance them.
|
|
They're not failing so much as the rest of society is failing them.
|
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Sarah, I don't have a question here so much as a statement: Help.
|
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Never missed a day of work, never took so much as an aspirin.
|
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There is no saving it so much as adapting to the new normal.
|
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The songs did not carry the storytelling so much as the choreography did.
|
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But I realized that what I'd felt wasn't fear so much as helplessness.
|
|
I am assured of nothing so much as this: the promo changed nothing.
|
|
WHAT ENDED THE '80s teen-boy movie wasn't revolution so much as graduation.
|
|
The bill has never gotten so much as a hearing in the Assembly.
|
|
They are not dismantling white supremacy so much as chipping away at it.
|
|
Amy Klobuchar are not associated with transformational ideas so much as their moderation.
|
|
But you don't have a mouse problem so much as a Jonathan infestation.
|
|
It's not a physical or mental issue so much as a psychological one.
|
|
Combat can now be waged without so much as a puff of smoke.
|
|
It's no longer time so much as attention that is money and power.
|
|
It is not the standards that are past so much as the technology.
|
|
They weren't calling for a revolution, so much as a return to stability.
|
|
"So much as I'm around a TV, I guess I'll tune into it."
|
|
It does not have a competing vision, so much as a competing motive.
|
|
They're not photographs of things so much as photographs of light on things.
|
|
He's never issued denials so much as dismissed the allegations as irrelevant distractions.
|
|
"For me, it's not about the person, so much as the food," added Wise.
|
|
The whole experience reminded me of nothing so much as Space Camp for adults.
|
|
You don't put the headphones on so much as you are absorbed into them.
|
|
Neither bill has had so much as a committee hearing, let alone a vote.
|
|
Think about it: He hasn't done so much as cut his hair until recently.
|
|
I have marveled at its flexibility but never so much as in recent years.
|
|
You don't own them so much as borrow them for indefinite periods of time.
|
|
But he'll need to do it without so much as throwing a single punch.
|
|
"I respect Bob so much as senator," Perdue told BuzzFeed News late Friday night.
|
|
Ultimately her vulnerability wasn't her Achilles heel so much as the making of her.
|
|
Giannis doesn't soothe our analytics malaise so much as he sears right through it.
|
|
She glowered at Bhima if he so much as put his arm around her.
|
|
He does not offer change so much as an experienced hand on the tiller.
|
|
Anyone with so much as an Instagram account has likely experienced those same anxieties.
|
|
In practice, the new Messenger isn't really faster so much as it is streamlined.
|
|
What's happened since May isn't a "cyberattack" so much as it is a hack.
|
|
The use of social media does not cause division so much as amplify it.
|
|
It is not a well-trained pooch so much as a well-built one.
|
|
It is not the buildings themselves so much as what they represent: long waits.
|
|
Depressed people don't mope around and they aren't necessarily sad so much as numb.
|
|
DevBot wasn't built for full-out racing speeds so much as for processing speeds.
|
|
These observations suggested that maybe serotonin didn't matter in depression so much as glutamate.
|
|
Marçal doesn't argue that economics is sexist so much as that it's totally clueless.
|
|
The media contacts there didn't so much as respond to multiple requests for interviews.
|
|
The GOP is ramming these bills through without so much as holding a hearing.
|
|
The soul hasn't chosen to leave, so much as it has been forcibly evicted.
|
|
After all, Putin is not a micro-managing grandmaster so much as an opportunist.
|
|
This isn't an Instagram Stories tip so much as an overall tip for Instagram.
|
|
They don't so much as make up as simply acknowledge that they are sisters.
|
|
She didn't run in to a rain shower so much as a missile launch.
|
|
Sanders didn't lose jobs, it would appear, so much as he bored of them.
|
|
AT TIMES markets and central banks resemble nothing so much as a quarrelsome couple.
|
|
But it's not a mole so much as a blackened sauce, like a recado.
|
|
The central risk of admitting this publicly isn't overreach so much as over-promising.
|
|
She never so much as stepped into a shop — that was a man's job.
|
|
This woman had never even so much as used the word "sex" around me.
|
|
Soldiers and rebels break the laws of war without so much as a shrug.
|
|
"It wasn't a ruling so much as a response to a request," he said.
|
|
The internet didn't change campaign ads themselves, so much as change how they're distributed.
|
|
It's not trivia to me, so much as it's exercising a different solving muscle.
|
|
Crasthorpe, and then had scuttled off without so much as a glance in Mrs.
|
|
Mr. Barry's music doesn't set the text so much as lob grenades at it.
|
|
Philadelphia are not suffering a Super Bowl hangover so much as multiple injury headaches.
|
|
They don't celebrate popular culture so much as point to its hollowness and tawdriness.
|
|
Does he qualify for so much as a Discover card with a $50 limit?
|
|
That doesn't absolve Frank so much as suggest the level of his own hollowness.
|
|
He seemed not to contribute to the series' lopsidedness so much as personify it.
|
|
She wasn't sitting on it so much as she was cocked, like a slingshot.
|
|
Really, though, she's not triumphing so much as persisting in the aftermath of heartbreak.
|
|
If we believe Phillips' Jerk Theory, he didn't ripen so much as he indurated.
|
|
Integral, but not nearly so much as the big wheel (automation) in the front.
|
|
If anyone on staff so much as texts about a V.I.P. guest, they're fired.
|
|
Tom Brady isn't a man so much as he is a feeling; an energy.
|
|
He believes The Times is not dominating the market so much as creating one.
|
|
Neither had any interest in, or so much as a working knowledge of, Nascar.
|
|
I wasn't thinking of the messaging so much as the tenderness of the show.
|
|
But they weren't the causes so much as the symptoms of a sexist society.
|
|
Quantum Break looks the part, before you've so much as finished its first act.
|
|
"It can do so much as a building material," Mr. Surman said of cork.
|
|
Do not take this as a nose-thumb so much as a brow-furrow.
|
|
" For her, this isn't exercise so much as a cherished "vacation from her life.
|
|
Critics don't wield the authority of experts so much as the credibility of devotees.
|
|
Until she was 25, Ouriel had never used so much as a facial cleanser.
|
|
Things don't happen to someone on screen so much as they happen to you.
|
|
At the moment, he can't so much as take on the president's P.A. system.
|
|
"Acting in films had never so much as crossed my mind," she later said.
|
|
The prize wasn't a gift from the universe so much as a cruel joke.
|
|
She isn't collecting her thoughts here so much as she is purposefully discollecting them.
|
|
His is not a personal bigotry so much as it is an ideological obsession.
|
|
For me, it wasn't a Balanchine work so much as a Balanchine quality: boldness.
|
|
The debut novelist's struggle resembles nothing so much as a Regency-era husband hunt.
|
|
For the next 20-plus years, I didn't so much as try another one.
|
|
The best pilots do not sit in cockpits so much as strap them on.
|
|
In May, Buffett told CNBC why he favors Apple so much as an investment.
|
|
The original political aims of the series weren't abandoned so much as rendered implicit.
|
|
Quite an a priori claim, made without reference to so much as an MRI.
|
|
Clinton has always been a class act, never so much as since Nov. 8.
|
|
The entire process happens in the background without so much as a single notification.
|
|
You aren't playing other people so much as you are just playing the algorithm.
|
|
Allen says she has never been called the N-word so much as now.
|
|
Nothing would enthrall him quite so much as the pocked and stippled human face.
|
|
Where didn't matter so much, as long as it was not in Elk Grove.
|
|
Trump hired him, without so much as an interview, to help out with security.
|
|
These were not edgy entertainers or profane comedians so much as family-friendly mainstays.
|
|
It doesn't want to be explained so much as it wants to be experienced.
|
|
Ultimately, "Trail of Lightning" made me want nothing so much as a television show.
|
|
But none of the Ukrainians I spoke to so much as mentioned anti-Semitism.
|
|
And then to get so much as a grunt of confirmation on the other end.
|
|
Insurance doesn't get you so much as a tongue depressor down the throat at Forward.
|
|
But the truth didn't seem to matter so much as whether the story felt true.
|
|
This wasn't an athletic event so much as it was a demonstration of physical laws.
|
|
Mitch McConnell for denying Merrick Garland so much as a hearing for the vacant seat.
|
|
He's not defending a woman he cares about so much as protecting something he owns.
|
|
As Krakauer explained this is not really about replacing 911 so much as augmenting it.
|
|
But I don't believe it's comedy that Trump eludes so much as something larger: fictionalization.
|
|
That means it can sit for years without so much as a battery top-up.
|
|
Sexual abuse and coercion is not about sexual attraction so much as it's about power.
|
|
He threatened Littlefinger with death if the Lord of Creepiness so much as touches Sansa.
|
|
Since girlhood, I haven't lost that admiration so much as allowed it to go dormant.
|
|
He doesn't even have to sing, so much as just moan along with the music.
|
|
Inaction does not reflect a lack of will so much as a failure of expertise.
|
|
Neither of the novel's parallel narratives contains so much as a single surprising plot development.
|
|
Not our actions in the region so much as the way we were spinning them.
|
|
My parents did not give me lessons in money so much as they enacted them.
|
|
"I just respect all of them so much … as corny as it is," Kardashian added.
|
|
The above shortcomings aren't to blame for this failure, so much as deeper, structural problems.
|
|
The humour wasn't in the songs so much as in the interaction between the performers.
|
|
The volunteers weren't allowed to leave the habitat, or so much as open a window.
|
|
Don't judge the actual products so much as how well they listened to your preferences.
|
|
"Our bodies change so much as women," the Instagram influencer-turned-designer tells The Post.
|
|
He spent that Christmas in a Texas prison, detoxing without so much as an aspirin.
|
|
He doesn't do so much as twitch when she applies his lipstick or beard color.
|
|
Not because of the device itself, so much as how Microsoft ultimately arrived at it.
|
|
In the intervening weeks, his tone has not been moderated so much as become familiar.
|
|
And women — even women as beautiful as Theron — do not age so much as disappear.
|
|
It wasn't the hardware so much as the custom Samsung OS software that was lacking.
|
|
It will not revive the play so much as have something to say to it.
|
|
The film's subtle vérité style doesn't provide an answer so much as illustrate a reality.
|
|
The common good, by the way, not being the country so much as the platoon.
|
|
But critics accuse Trump of rarely paying so much as lip service to those values.
|
|
Well, it's not politics of the day so much as just what's in the air.
|
|
Fantastic Beasts isn't a movie so much as a platform for a new franchise launch.
|
|
In a word, AlphaStar hasn't been programmed to play so much as it has learned.
|
|
Despite their titles, the two works didn't have food in common so much as walls.
|
|
Without so much as a word from the governor, Mr. Percoco physically blocked Ms. Teachout.
|
|
If Jackson so much as missed a nap, in my mind, the day was ruined.
|
|
It doesn't depict the crisis so much as chart the raw, emotional response to it.
|
|
A black man or woman couldn't so much as drive through without being run out.
|
|
Wonks and worrywarts need not fret about the future so much as about the present.
|
|
Second Nature does not promise an exit from society so much as integration into it.
|
|
I had just moved, and it had been weeks since I'd so much as stretched.
|
|
But, it wasn't the numbers that alarmed viewers so much as her dramatically thin appearance.
|
|
It didn't feel so much as a craft as a never-ending trial of stamina.
|
|
So much as we would like to see this all disappear, I think that's reality.
|
|
"I learned so much as a young man from summer camp," he told the crowd.
|
|
In reality, however, Pérez was not proving his strength so much as demonstrating his weakness.
|
|
It didn't upset me so much as startle me; it was like seeing a ghost.
|
|
China's large debt isn't a debt problem so much as a fiscal problem in disguise.
|
|
SF: I don't know that that's storytelling so much as an experiential kind of thing.
|
|
Without so much as a flicker, the napkin-wrapped ketwurst was handed over to me.
|
|
He doesn't want to create empathy for Cunanan so much as a kind of understanding.
|
|
And his style of politics isn't democratic so much as it is cult-of-personality.
|
|
"I don't know if it's any strategy so much as him being liberated," she said.
|
|
Since that defeat at Newcastle, Manchester City has not dropped so much as a point.
|
|
In that time, Instacart has "never so much as met with us once," Bain said.
|
|
What's more, these self-soothing options aren't a treatment so much as a Band-Aid.
|
|
"Pirouette" doesn't so much as reinvent the love ballad as it colors outside the lines.
|
|
At 903, he has never so much as iced his arm, let alone needed surgery.
|
|
Takashi Murakami's flower paintings don't seem to suffer that fate so much as invite it.
|
|
It's not a hardening of the heart so much as a sharpening of the spirit.
|
|
It is that they do it without so much as a murmur of moral disquiet.
|
|
It's not a representation of identity so much as it is a renegotiation of it.
|
|
He panics if she so much as double parks, worried it will attract the police.
|
|
He evolved so much as a human being, & his words meant the world to me.
|
|
It succeeds wonderfully, not so much as an argument but as an emanation of spirit.
|
|
They didn't build toward a conclusion so much as sag until they finally gave out.
|
|
Somehow they used enough to kill parasites, but not so much as to kill themselves.
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Risky mergers such as Whirlpool-Maytag were approved without so much as tacking on remedies.
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Beyoncé doesn&apost release music so much as drop album bombs onto a waiting public.
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It's nothing if not authentic — and these days fashion loves nothing so much as authenticity.
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These young women belonged to no one so much as themselves -- which was the point.
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Last month, a Republican majority wiped them out without so much as a second thought.
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These trials provide not justice so much as revenge, and they uncover very little information.
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He did not hit Moore so much as nearly dislodge Moore's head from his body.
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The election did not resolve those questions so much as highlight the strength of disagreement.
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He's a cryptic storyteller, in so much as his stories have beginnings, middles or ends.
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Busloads of young militia recruits cross into Iran without so much as a document check.
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They had lost a bit of helium, but not so much as to ground them.
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As an atheist, de Botton isn't interested in defending religion so much as understanding it.
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It's not that nothing else got done so much as nobody heard about anything else.
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It's not a feat of investigative journalism so much as an act of bearing witness.
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This one isn't a mistake so much as an extremely simplified phrase that scientists dislike.
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I think that's part of what makes Best Coast succeed so much as a band.Yeah.
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But it's also not a natural TV premise so much as it's a movie premise.
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Protest signs weren't abandoned so much as stuck upright into snow banks along the alleys.
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Until the last frames of the movie, he never so much as hints at a smile.
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But the Kimoji Hearts trio of fragrances aren't meant to be sexy so much as adorable.
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It wasn't a lack of vision that made the tablet a failure, so much as it
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I'm a fan of his as a player, but maybe not so much as a person.
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Grandparents who inquire on the mechanics of our hair without so much as a may I?
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He's a natural communicator, which he puts down to having moved so much as a child.
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It's not there to grab the viewer so much as it is to gently disturb them.
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I wouldn't say that Bay has matured so much as he has, to his credit, excised
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Toews doesn't want to reenact the crimes in Women Talking so much as document their fallout.
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Arguably, though, neither of them upset the odds quite so much as Danish equestrian Lis Hartel.
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Not so much as a trailer for one of the movies has ever crossed my screen.
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Okay, maybe not glancing so much as swiping, tapping and giving it some serious face time.
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And perhaps it wasn't my body image that was changing so much as my physical identity.
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Rob Gronkowski isn't a celebrity NFL player so much as he is a state of mind.
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In this context, a row with Iran is not a problem so much as an opportunity.
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Yury Sidorov, the Russian, fails to so much as stand up off the couch without assistance.
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"It wasn't so much as I was itching for the world to see him," she said.
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"It's not a personal lack of confidence so much as an imposed one," Pop told me.
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YN: It wasn't a decision so much as the reality of production, plus profits, plus expenses.
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Sometimes, "Love" suggests, romance doesn't need candlelight to grow so much as an honest fluorescent glare.
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The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.
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They're comfortable, if slightly heavier than standard sunglasses, but not so much as to be burdensome.
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Announced this fall, the Flex doesn't aim to replace its predecessor so much as augment it.
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I don't hate push notifications, so much as I wish they were more targeted and accurate.
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As I processed the hurt, I realized I wasn't angry so much as I was confused.
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Episodes don't really matter, so much as individual moments that make you say, "Holy shit!" do.
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I think what we would have said was we weren't punching so much as truth-telling.
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Kim probably hasn't done so much as put her own hair in a ponytail since 2005.
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In other words, your phone wasn't making you prettier, so much as a bit more blurry.
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So far, there's no sign that they've made so much as a dent in his revenues.
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The airline industry does not have a pay-discrimination problem so much as a recruitment problem.
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Trump did not "win" the trade portion of the debate so much as Clinton lost it.
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"I've grown so much as a person and a woman since The Simple Life," she says.
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On his previous 14 visits to Paris-Roubaix, he'd never so much as made the podium.
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It reminds me of nothing so much as the systematic partisan imbalance in Sunday show bookings.
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Challenges are not laid down by the game so much as dreamed up by the player.
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That doesn't feel like a deliberate programming choice so much as a sign of the zeitgeist.
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Not half so much as we hoped back in the giddy early days of the Internet.
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But when I so much as mentioned a career opportunity, I was a heartless heartbreaking bitch.
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But for some reason, he gets up and walks away without so much as a word.
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We do so much as fans together whether it's charity work or simply helping each other.
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Farrell positions himself not as aggravating the battle of the sexes so much as recalibrating it.
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The motivation, however, wasn't due to feared legal repercussions, so much as common robot/human etiquette.
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He did not defend Trump so much as he denied what Trump has said and done.
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" But it seems clear that "confusion" isn't the issue so much as, well, "acceptable business terms.
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The story doesn't build upon Harry Potter, so much as it updates on its characters' status.
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Samsung's new Chromebooks aren't exceptional, so much as they are a good signpost for that progress.
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But the issue isn't with antitrust law itself so much as the current understanding of monopoly.
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New Hampshire did not make McCarthy seem electable so much as it made Johnson seem beatable.
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Why do the cows in that field look so much as if they aren't there at
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This one really isn't a math trick, so much as it is a good general rule.
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Until recently, TAG Heuer had never so much as hummed a note with the music industry.
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The Department of Energy declined to so much as confirm the visit, which Nevada lawmakers reported.
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Devoid of deeper meaning, they are used without so much as a nod to their history.
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There's a whole lot about being good, but not so much as a whisper about Jesus.
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I see me in absolute floods if I so much as get five minutes into proceedings.
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The game was close throughout with neither team taking so much as a double-digit lead.
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It's not that you have to justify your decisions around drinking so much as examining them.
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It isn't really about who you believe so much as which epistemic world you believe in.
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The plaque doesn't honor Pétain so much as recognize the fact that he got a parade.
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And why does Amma flip out when Adora so much as tries to touch the toy?
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Unbalanced growth isn't evidence of a looming risk so much as a sign of successful industrialization.
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Code Red doesn't live up to Regular Dew so much as Regular brings Code Red down.
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This time things don't rot out so much as they turn in a flash of violence.
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So we have people work so they repay victims and society so much as that's possible.
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What God is seeking is not our intellectual assent so much as a relationship with us.
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Gantz doesn't communicate a political agenda so much as he does a character and an attitude.
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In fact, you don't drink it so much as you let it glide through your body.
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It wasn't the body work so much as Ferguson's relentless pressure which did the Brazilian in.
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Mr. Essex did not leave advertising so much as flee it, as per his new book.
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But I do want her to remember me, not specific events so much as my presence.
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That doesn&apost constitute a first-move advantage so much as an only-mover leg up.
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"We don't have a student loan problem so much as a college completion problem," Kantrowitz says.
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Despite suffering so much as a child star, Garland didn't shelter her daughters from the business.
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But I've come to appreciate that he is not ignoring so much as he is imagining.
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He's not exhausted by the changing world so much as baffled and in awe of it.
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Standing up, the sleeping bags resemble nothing so much as sarcophagi, likewise made from the scarves.
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For a long time, I couldn't so much as think of the places we had been.
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But with this president, it's not the thought that counts so much as the bottom line.
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For followers of Jesus, salvation was based not on his life so much as his death.
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I don't think people are missing sex, per se, so much as they are missing touch.
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But Tigers Are Not Afraid doesn't play like a mystery so much as a poignant allegory.
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Our shelves have never so much as wobbled, even when my daughter has pulled on them.
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Washington can heap more debt on the taxpayers without so much as a vote in Congress.
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Good intentions matter, but only so much as we have a scientific basis for our advice.
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To this day, the showrunners can't so much as tweet without a bunch of angry responses.
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It's really great to feel uncomfortable, and you change so much as a person from that.
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It wasn't irreverence so much as an intense culinary curiosity, a playful exploration of the delicious.
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"It's not back and forth so much as it's the same old failed system," Carter says.
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I never felt like I lost control so much as I relinquished a bit of control.
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Women flogged for showing so much as their eyes were issued receipts by the morality police.
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"This is killing me!" she yells, but she's not angry so much as she is terrified.
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The sound is sharper, stabbing into your sides before you so much as see its face.
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It is not that these forces captured the party so much as it fell to them.
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So in reality, you're not floating so much as falling, like a skydiver surrounded by a plane.
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The computers don't rise up against us so much as human errors and foibles cause system failures.
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These comics don't deliver punch lines so much as hammer them, always finishing with a boisterous cackle.
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It was not a product so much as an approach to insert intelligence across the Salesforce platform.
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It's not that it's unbelievable, so much as it's completely impossible to understand the motivations of anyone.Yeah.
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Of course, you never know that so much as when you're doing good stuff and that's over.
|
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For a company with a two letter name, LG loves nothing so much as an unwieldy title.
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This doesn't illustrate a break from tradition so much as a shift in how weddings work now.
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I don't know if there's a hole in the market so much as thinking about the gatekeepers.
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Your eyes look dead and your scowl does not suggest American greatness so much as American indigestion.
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It's not like we had fun together; the man didn't like me so much as tolerate me.
|
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Meanwhile, he said, he does not watch daily financial market gyrations so much as longer-term trends.
|
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Zarina doesn't illustrate words so much as unravel them, revealing the buried places from which we speak.
|
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Today, I learned The Verge has never written a single post that so much as mentions Animorphs.
|
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The process gave Lopes a newfound appreciation for the music he loved so much as a kid.
|
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For them, it's evidently not what he's doing so much as it is the people he's fighting.
|
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The translator's task is to render, not the words themselves so much as the gestures they embody.
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But Broadway shouldn't be catering to the latter so much as forcing them outside their comfort zones.
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But the show never reckons with deeper issues so much as it mentions them between fight scenes.
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I wasn't even bored, so much as just dazed, like I'd woken up in someone else's dream.
|
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It's not a secret ingredient so much as it is a key ingredient they are leaving out.
|
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But the current situation isn't really a crisis of numbers so much as a crisis of resources.
|
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The effect wasn't plumped so much as sculpted, contoured, sharpened — like a Mario Dedivanovic contour on steroids.
|
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He doesn't want to legalize weed so much as he wants to legalize the way he lives.
|
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Unfortunately, my flailing limbs couldn't chop so much as a half-baked souffle than a human body.
|
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It coped with record insured catastrophe losses of $135bn in 2017 without so much as a hiccup.
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They would not be struck by the slow-moving vehicles so much as be frightened into runaways.
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Both now are struggling, not against each other so much as against their own long cultural footprint.
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The "hack" wasn't a bug so much as a feature that hadn't been tapped into until now.
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At times the Liberal Democrats resemble nothing so much as a think-tank with a parliamentary wing.
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If someone didn't pay him back on time, he never so much as mentioned it to them.
|
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Her stare is cold, and without so much as a hug, she heads outside for the photo.
|
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Because during the Euros, he didn't really carry his team so much as breathe life into it.
|
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The next level isn't so much as a step down from fractional ownership as a step sideways.
|
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It's not making me feel powerful so much as hyper-competent and allowed to do "bad" things.
|
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What you have is a new kind of morality that isn't relativistic so much as more tolerant.
|
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In this sense, history isn't a barrier for Rowling so much as it is a co-writer.
|
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It's enabled me to come back to choreography; I no longer dance so much as I read.
|
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"Anecdotally it's not your friend who influences your behavior so much as your friend's friend," D'Souza said.
|
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Hanson wasn't competing with the Portocarreros so much as joining them in the marketplace as a partner.
|
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His current run doesn't refute everything that happened while he was gone so much as ignore it.
|
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Thompson isn't sacrificing numbers so much as he's failing to capitalize on the opportunities he still has.
|
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Of those, some even liked it so much as to say it's the best since the original.
|
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A low point in the director's career, this sleek chilly film isn't acted so much as posed.
|
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The little fella hopped off into the distance without so much as a nod to the rescuer.
|
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They were constantly admonished against leaving behind so much as a pen or a roll of tape.
|
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The powerful rebound reflected the market's bears are not dead so much as in unseasonably late hibernation.
|
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This isn't a defense of what they're doing so much as an observation of the strategic logic.
|
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"If anyone in our test got so much as a pimple, we started over," Dr. Wechsler said.
|
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Countless male tennis players have thrown and smashed rackets and never so much as received a warning.
|
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He did not consider them works of art in their own right so much as pictorial scaffolding.
|
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Like everyone else encountered, he had no identification and was released without so much as a summons.
|
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No one is stranded, stuck, or diverted because of the snow so much as just... near it.
|
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Wall Street appears to be dancing past this global graveyard without so much as a passing thought.
|
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We're not as interested in their personal lives so much as their ability to run the country.
|
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He often looks annoyed if the ball so much as glances off the rim before falling through.
|
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They're not dancing so much as they can't sit still, or decide what they want to do.
|
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Few LGBTQ parents in pop culture ever so much as interact with another same-sex parenting couple.
|
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They don't lie so much as they shade the truth, twist it, omit key information from it.
|
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American suits, in so much as there is such a thing, have a certain stolidity to them.
|
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Divorce followed, but the book depicts it not so much as a tragedy as a joyful rebirth.
|
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He's not concerned with projecting a rhythmic concept so much as evoking something wholesale, cathartic and consuming.
|
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The eventual return of joy, love and happiness doesn't get so much as a special lighting cue.
|
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I'm not that focused on tactics anyway, so much as I am on the convictions at stake.
|
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"We just played so much as a kid, especially that summer, I got burned out," Woodland said.
|
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However, its data isn't focused on demographics so much as it is on "psychographics" — meaning, your tastes.
|
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"I didn't think I'd ever be into something so much as I am escape rooms," Bon gushes.
|
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Issues themselves didn't animate him, so much as conflict between teams—Democrats and Republicans, most of all.
|
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Avoid anything that has about it so much as a whiff of reflection, originality or the like.
|
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Brooklynn hadn't so much as talked back, said her mother, Courtney Prince, who is an acting coach.
|
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A lot of the Trump pro-business agenda isn't about efficiency so much as favoring big donors.
|
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Cirque de Soleil performers amazed audience members, but none so much as Olivia Colman and Daisy Ridley.
|
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Trump's choice, after all, called to mind nothing so much as the past: Jacqueline Kennedy and Camelot.
|
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By the time the final meal is devoured, you'll be wanting nothing so much as an antacid.
|
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Of this latest crop, the correct choice, in so much as there may be one, is b.
|
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Words and pictures don't compete so much as keep each other company—like peas in a pod.
|
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In her extreme focus and clipped, uncompromising sentences, Glück recalls no one so much as Susan Sontag.
|
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This interactive exhibition doesn't bring the jungle to Brooklyn so much as it delivers the Serengeti plains.
|
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No pitcher, before or since, has so much as thrown a no-hitter in the World Series.
|
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"I don't know that it's an explicit philosophy so much as a sense of disorganization," he says.
|
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As a Smithsonian essay pointed out, New Yorkers might not be rude, so much as overly familiar.
|
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Unlike alcohol or opioids, phones aren't an addictive substance so much as a species-level environmental shock.
|
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Has any character seen women, liked women, enjoyed their conversation and stratagems quite so much as he?
|
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Coco Chanel, immortalized not so much as a young woman but as an elegant matriarch, retires nearby.
|
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I'm not sure I stepped out of the closet so much as the closet crumbled around me.
|
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This was not a time of cultural exchange so much as one of conquest, exploitation and expansion.
|
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The biomass industry, Koss argues, isn't driving clear-cutting so much as making use of its waste.
|
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Bullshitters don't lie, he said, so much as treat the truth as irrelevant, orthogonal to their purposes.
|
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But other than that, the characters aren't really even archetypes so much as a collection of random faces.
|
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"It's not about tightening policy so much as pulling back a little bit" on monetary accommodation, Williams said.
|
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Earlier in his residency at the embassy, Assange couldn't so much as step out onto the building's balcony.
|
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Perhaps the center of the Maze isn't an actual place, so much as it's a state of being.
|
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Maybe you work long days and late hours, without so much as an acknowledgement that you even exist.
|
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Unlike the character from Greek mythology, they don't make prophesies so much as publishing peer-reviewed scientific studies.
|
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With its lickspittle questions and cheerful disinformation, it feels like nothing so much as North Korean state press.
|
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We are killing everything without so much as a backwards glance, and we don't have to do that.
|
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What Zuckerberg is offering here isn't a business plan so much as it's a philosophy or an ideology.
|
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The Panera site is offline as of Monday evening, and failed to load so much as 404 page.
|
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The key isn't monsters and mayhem so much as exploring the horrible things normal people are capable of.
|
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"I just love him so much as a person and would love to see him happy," she said.
|
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When it comes to killing wights, it's not about quantity so much as… no, it is about quantity.
|
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She goes to bed with her lover for four days without so much as glancing at a headline.
|
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I've never so much as broken a bone, let alone had surgery, and I hardly even get colds.
|
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"I just respect all of them so much … as corny as it is," she said of her momager.
|
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That's because the cloud isn't a single concrete thing so much as a concept that encompasses many technologies.
|
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Anyone who clicked that link could leave a message, without so much as a username attached to it.
|
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The model can't so much as sneeze without being linked to some new celebrity heartthrob or basketball star.
|
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As it turns out, the device wasn't an outlier so much as a new precedent for the company.
|
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Sarah (Amy Landecker) doesn't really have an arc this season so much as a constant series of rejections.
|
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Perhaps this won't be the death of the app so much as a passing era of growing pains.
|
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Vox directs its anti-establishment ire not at the EU so much as at feminists and separatist Catalans.
|
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And we don't need to be afraid of it, so much as wary that its processes aren't misused.
|
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People don't really care who is in the room so much as how we can connect over content.
|
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That Wall Street is not in the cross hairs quite so much as it was in the past?
|
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The blingless kingpin himself wore scruffy shoes and did not so much as take a sip of water.
|
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It's angular, yes, but not so much as to offend the human eye or the laws of aerodynamics.
|
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Meanwhile, Henkel's Hair Analyzer and Customizer aren't meant for the end-user so much as a hair stylist.
|
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Men were not individuals so much as social products…inevitably tied to their race and class…but struggling!
|
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Doing so much as vacuuming my home has me needing to sit down and recover for a while.
|
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All business, Djokovic marched back to his seat in silence, without so much as a quiet fist-pump.
|
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Not really Purging it up, so much as running around going "Nyah nyah nyah!" like an unpoliced child.
|
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Sometimes institutions make the unprecedented move to censor an artwork without even so much as consulting the artists.
|
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The male kangaroo isn't facilitating a loving moment so much as trying to make a little love himself.
|
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For those reasons, the Torin IQs shouldn't be considered a fitness band replacement, so much as a supplement.
|
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You play the moment, and you're not thinking about the audience so much as the characters you're with.
|
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Why does one product come to dominate culture and another pass away without so much as a whimper?
|
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Did the writers really love her so much as she was that they just pickled her in it?
|
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Sure, it's cheating — your camera isn't really zooming so much as cropping — and the results often look bad.
|
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It's not the individual stories that are troubling so much as it is the overwhelming accumulation of them.
|
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This disharmony begins mere seconds into the experience, before so much as a single barrel roll's been executed.
|
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I wasn't interacting with the scene so much as I was stepping through it as an inconsequential presence.
|
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"This is not so much a question so much as it is a compliment," the man told Kasich.
|
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The wheels haven't fallen off the bus, so much as the bus has started to make local stops.
|
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Davis does not use moves and counter-moves so much as switch at will between entire tactical modes.
|
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"We do not currently have a student debt problem so much as a college completion problem," Kantrowitz said.
|
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It's not a cuisine so much as an ingredient you can dress up in almost any culinary style.
|
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"Nothing appeals to me so much as having a true purpose and a true goal somewhere," Alex said.
|
|
This data suggests that many journalism and PR jobs didn't go away so much as change their names.
|
|
Erin, played by Big Little Lies's Darby Camp, isn't ill-willed so much as bored and un-parented.
|
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Relationships are tested not by rival suitors so much as the ever present gaze and gossip of peers!
|
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This isn't really a hack, so much as some extremely vintage jargon that I simply could not ignore.
|
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Russia, on the other hand, remains a problem not for its strength but so much as its weakness.
|
|
Despite Garland's much-proclaimed moderation, Mitch McConnell declared that he would not so much as get a hearing.
|
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Nowadays, Mr. McConnell will stroll purposefully past inquiring reporters without so much as a glance in their direction.
|
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That movie sanctifies ignorance, whereas Heller's, equally gentle, explores not simplemindedness so much as simplicity, a rarer gift.
|
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Yet her gravity-defying sculptures from the tropics resemble nothing so much as this living tangle of metal.
|
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The new empowerment doesn't increase potential so much as it assures you that your potential is just fine.
|
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As Traub explains, the presidency was not the capstone of Adams's career so much as an awkward interlude.
|
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Ms. Even's family had enough money that this wasn't a trade-off so much as a conscious choice.
|
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African bees are particularly aggressive and will swarm any intruder that so much as jiggles an adjoining branch.
|
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Inadequate capacity would present not a complication so much as a perfect opportunity to improve upon the event.
|
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But it's not about raising money so much as the issue of fairness, Democrats and some Republicans argue.
|
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But she prefers not to give them so much as a thought, and has largely succeeded — until now.
|
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"I can't imagine what it's like to miss so much as they change so quickly," the prince added.
|
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"It's not that Wiccans get arrested a lot so much as people become Wiccan in prison," she said.
|
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These are not ordinary flawed people so much as walking advertisements for the compassion of their political sponsors.
|
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Brexit. The effect is not on the nose so much as it swings at it with a hammer,
|
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They wouldn't be identical to ketamine so much as molecules that interact with the brain in similar ways.
|
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None of the reports so far have directly implicated the president so much as people in his orbit.
|
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O'Brother's music is not meant to be listened to so much as it is meant to hit you.
|
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I listen intently for so much as a whisper from the closet, but she never says a word.
|
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Nowadays, Guillem Anglada-Escudé can analyze telescope data for over 14 hours without so much as looking up.
|
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It turns us over, it does not carry us so much as it pushes us, stripping the riverbed.
|
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In fact, they bring to mind nothing so much as the political sex scandals of the mid-2000s.
|
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A bitmap isn't really a format so much as it a thing: a two-dimensional grid of pixels.
|
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Rue doesn't feel like a person so much as a collection of storytelling tics in her voiceover narration.
|
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Art Review Spring/Break doesn't feel like a fair so much as a crowded, exhilarating, madcap art extravaganza.
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Frankfurt argued that bullshit is not about lying so much as simply not giving a shit about truth.
|
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Unlike R.V.s, however, tiny houses are generally not wheeled for touring, so much as for flexibility of location.
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They don't patch over the existential void so much as reveal how avidly we yearn to fill it.
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It's not something they have to 'deal with,' so much as something they should feel good about providing.
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And, his images feature sometimes detached subjects, not apathetic so much as quietly comfortable in their own skin.
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The National Defense Strategy has no legal authority — it's not policy so much as summary of policy priorities.
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Cal isn't a believable match for Sarah so much as he's a representation of what she believes in.
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Emails often get deleted without so much as being opened, regardless of how cheeky the subject line is.
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The Narrow Door benefits from rereading; knowing what's ahead doesn't spoil the work so much as slow it.
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The forms don't shift abruptly from one thing to another so much as flow effortlessly into the next.
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Any Republican who so much as nods at the concept of immigration reform will be sidelined and scorned.
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He did not blame his players so much as England's hectic Christmas period, the sheer number of games.
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You turn and leave, tossing a Molotov cocktail over your shoulder without so much as a backward glance.
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I probably sent out maybe a dozen résumés and never got back so much as an automatic response.
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"There is no proof that Kirill put so much as a kopeck into his own pocket," he said.
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First, alcohol does not create violent sexual impulses so much as it unleashes or magnifies pre-existing ones.
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Plenty of summers have gone by without so much as a hamburger or hot dog touching my grill.
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Sexist, racist comments fly by our heroine without her giving so much as a glance in their direction.
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Putin does not need the team to win so much as a game to get his message across.
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We saluted the dark, starry, silent sky, and it did not so much as whistle or wink back.
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"It's not about protracted and lengthy or short and quick so much as full and fair," she said.
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Culturally speaking, he didn't use his office to lift up, enlighten and entertain so much as share it.
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He isn't a different person in drag so much as a more outgoing version of himself, he said.
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Anything with so much as a tiny light is using energy when plugged in — from TVs to toasters.
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After we got married, he still went deathly cold on me if I so much as mentioned quitting.
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It appears as though they have been able to carry on filming without so much as a hiccup.
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Mr. Kroc wasn't a failed salesman so much as one who had not hit on a huge idea.
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Jimmy Fallon, generally an ebullient cruise director for awards shows, wasn't a presence so much as a nuisance.
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They became shorthand for a key swath of America, one not driven by ideology so much as practicality.
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Russian and American intelligence agencies see one another not so much as potential allies but as persistent threats.
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"None of the girls except Gaia had acted in so much as a school play," Phoebe Reilly reports.
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The capital now "resembles nothing so much as an unruly sandbox," one of our White House correspondents writes.
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The series doesn't have a voice so much as a mood, and that mood is, usually, a bummer.
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We haven't enjoyed so much as a vodka cran in two years without talking about the latest tweet.
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She's not smiling so much as grimacing against the pull of the brush and squinting against the sun.
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The goals haven't changed so much as become more important to our core values—we were always political.
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Fortunately his tastes — not the details of them so much as their general existence — keep the book afloat.
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They don't feel wanton so much as half-baked and poorly conceived; they aren't doing any storytelling work.
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I didn't so much as nod in their direction, because I thought they were all laughing at me.
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Their agendas are set not by the needs of communities so much as the interests of national governments.
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Black players might immediately be switched to linebacker, tight end or wide receiver, without so much as a tryout.
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The year of speculation around Amazon's HQ21 landing pad felt like nothing so much as a prolonged anxiety attack.
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Does he think they can win without so much as competing in the second-biggest state in the union?
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But these days, Paltrow isn't courting Oscar nominations so much as public appeal through her cookbooks, website, and Instagram.
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While playing through the first Destiny 2 expansion, Curse of Osiris, I didn't feel lost so much as bored.
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Full of humility, Aly addressed how winning the award didn't matter to him so much as people like him.
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He hasn't declared it Pride month when June began and he hasn't so much as tweeted about the celebration.
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Crowe doesn't impersonate Ailes so much as inhabit him, from his padded waddle to his thunderous bouts of anger.
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Iran is a very special place, but I think there's been no country that's changed so much as Iran.
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It's not a question of real profitability, revenue, or trade imbalances so much as how we feel about them.
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That's not so much a tacit endorsement of the product, so much as an objective analysis of the numbers.
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Maeve, who's died onscreen a dozen times, resembles nothing by now so much as the god of the underworld.
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In other words, don't worry if you've never seen so much as a single frame of Batman v Superman.
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"But I don't know if I was angry so much as a particular person or the institution," he said.
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When it comes to corporate expatriates, the cost isn't in jobs so much as it is lost tax revenue.
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These aren't apologies so much as necessary actions needed to remain in the good graces of the public eye.
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The dowser's forked stick is like nothing so much as a larger-scale peg, with the legs pulled outward.
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This isn't necessarily a YouTube problem, DeFranco said, so much as it's an issue with the current online landscape.
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The vines seem alone, small and squat, in these fields devoid of so much as a blade of grass.
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If Dolly Parton so much as glanced in our general direction, we would instantly dissolve into a mint julep.
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You are told all the time of really great people who leave without so much as a goodbye email.
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Of course, she probably doesn't see it as stealing so much as an unfortunate turn of events — for me.
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The aim is not to prove any specific alternative theory, so much as to create the illusion of uncertainty.
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Instead, marrying this music and libretto with these photographs sentimentalizes their depicted sexuality, so much as to neuter it.
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Maybe Nishimura was better adapted, because he went directly to the Hanzomon platform without so much as a flinch.
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That means when you meet people, you don't 'pitch' them so much as just tell them what you do.
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This is embarrassing, but if I'm being honest, I have not so much as kissed anyone in six months.
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What's drawn the most ire from progressives isn't Trump's vulgar language so much as what he's describing: sexual assault.
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As you can see, a lot of the updates aren't about new features so much as about workflow enhancements.
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The election was not a genuine exercise of choice so much as a ritual acknowledgment of who holds power.
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His establishment nous notwithstanding, Mr Pompeo is not playing Mr Trump so much as finding common cause with him.
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Don't judge the actual products so much as how they listened to your preferences and the brands they send.
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This isn't contingency-planning so much as the kind of prayer an atheist might resort to in an earthquake.
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The story is not told, so much as suggested, in stray bits of dialogue and half-expressed plot points.
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It seemed like a dangerous situation, not physically so much as people could go to jail for their beliefs.
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Ali regarded these foes as not his boxing rivals so much as traitors to the cause of black freedom.
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I'd suggest that the problem here isn't bias so much as what the philosopher Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm.
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For every traumatic labor there are many that pass off without so much as a chip in your tailbone.
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The Forces of Destiny short doesn't re-tell the deleted scene so much as it expands on the idea.
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They don't use terror so much as they use the coercive power of government to impose themselves on us.
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Throughout this interview, Flynn and Sendejas don't finish each other's sentences, so much as edit them on the fly.
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Could we possibly admit to ourselves that it isn't really about what we use so much as the quantity?
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It's not a Frankenstein story so much as a story about children, and the terror of coming of age.
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For these Sanders activists, a vote for Clinton may not mean "becoming more strategic" so much as switching strategies.
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But what interests me most about Professional difficulty isn't what's there right now, so much as what could be.
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But you probably don't care how the HT-CT290 looks or works so much as what it sounds like.
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Hillary Clinton does not even so much as glance at the Trumps and it doesn't escape CBS's notice pic.twitter.
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"I don't think Obama's legacy has taken a hit so much as it came back to earth," Vaughn said.
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That explains why joining the EU boosted Britain's exports so much—as the chart shows for former West Germany.
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She searched all winter for conservatory jobs across the nation, but she wasn't landing so much as an interview.
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Well, I don't know if it's about the aging so much as it is about having healthy-looking skin.
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Paterno could have called the police in 212 "without so much as getting his hands dirty," the judge said.
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Its writing resembles nothing so much as Scripture; ideas are condensed to epigrams, four or five to a paragraph.
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From this perspective, mathematics isn't something produced by the human mind so much as something the human mind discovers.
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Turns out, Evangelicals don't support Trump so much as oppose Hillary, her pro-abortion stand being the primary factor.
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Or, rather, it didn't blur my vision so much as it colored it: it made me stop trusting her.
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What defeats Hughes is not her short game so much as the fade of her long and lofted vowels.
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Put another way, conspiracy theories aren't eroding democracy so much as they signal that a democracy is already decaying.
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The catch: But without cutting off coverage, it's not a work requirement, so much as just a work suggestion.
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They are good when they emit extremely, unbelievably loud farts without so much as a blink or a warning.
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Consciousness has been exploded not so much as an aftereffect of a violent shock but thanks to becoming superfluous.
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Not so much, as it turns out, although Mironov was a perfectly serviceable defenseman for three seasons in Toronto.
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But they'll do a fawning profile of angry white racists if they so much as put on a suit.
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Freediving is a sport that can easily become fatal if someone so much as ascends a second too quickly.
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The Lego Ninjago Movie isn't trying to launch or critique a franchise so much as extend an existing one.
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It's not that Washington is broken, then, so much as there are lots of people interested in breaking it.
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Now we weren't looking for what to do so much as how to maximize the potential of the band.
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For the country's diminishing liberal base, Regev represents not a culture war so much as a war on culture.
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What has changed during the intervening generation is not law so much as political culture — and the court itself.
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The advent of popular air travel did not alter this perception so much as standardize it around the globe.
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He isn't trying to dress up his cooking so much as he's trying to wrestle it away from familiarity.
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They're not really ideologues so much as careerists, whose instinct is always to go along with the party line.
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I fell down and began to cry so much as my wife's corpse was lying there on the ground.
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Searching for those moments on ice and snow, he did not find them so much as they found him.
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And if you've so much as had romaine in your fridge recently, they recommend cleaning and sanitizing those areas.
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Where Christie's Vera seems never to have had so much as an impure thought, Lifetime's Vera has hidden depths.
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So it's a relief to see them reunited after two days in which Henry didn't so much as call.
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These clips tend to be satisfying the way Doritos are satisfying: not nourishing so much as easy to devour.
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Of course, those aren't necessarily "anti-feminist" actions so much as they're examples of shit that college students do.
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Globalism has not led to "free" trade so much as a playing field skewed to the advantage of capital.
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But at the same time, I don't think anybody in the Café Society audience so much as considered this.
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To that end, he doesn't see this current moment so much as a reunion but rather a new beginning.
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"Unlike alcohol or opioids, phones aren't an addictive substance so much as a species-level environmental shock," he wrote.
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It is as generous as it is marvelous, and I'm left feeling nothing so much as grateful for it.
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Sansa Stark wins independence for the North without so much as an argument from any of other assembled lords.
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For that one, Apple has pledged to make two 10-episode seasons, without so much as a script written.
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Kobe doesn't see these updates as changes so much as a continuation of Apple's original goal with the store.
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There are many — so many I literally don't have space to so much as list them in this column.
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Historically, however, disruptions haven't changed the date of US elections so much as turnout and practices at the polls.
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I spotted a pair of blocky Jacquemus mules that I can't say I've wanted so much as wondered about.
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Inside its doors you weren't in Williamsburg so much as in an independent republic devoted to neighborly convenience food.
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In part, that's because his finest jokes don't hit you in the gut so much as tickle your brain.
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Each production has talented puppeteers who seem not to manipulate these marvelous inventions so much as merge with them.
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Mr. McConnell prevented Mr. Garland last year from getting so much as a hearing for the Supreme Court vacancy.
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Of course, it's ridiculous to suggest that "Twin Peaks" is borrowing these elements so much as borrowing them back.
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It is a club that does not see the Champions League as an ambition so much as a requirement.
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"I dont think theyve fixed it so much as put a Band-Aid on it every day," he said.
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The cyclist continued on her way, her ponytail swinging in the breeze, without so much as a look back.
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These days recovery does not depend on age so much as other medical issues, like lung problems, he said.
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What followed over the next hour was a fight of sorts, not against one another so much as themselves.
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In the grand scheme of things, being 6'1.5, isn't so much a grand affliction so much as an inconvenience.
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For the teenage me, America was not an actual place so much as it was an idea and ideal.
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Wolf doesn't confide so much as report — on a crunchy gherkin, on abstract political anxieties, on a disconcerting dream.
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They didn't refuse to hold a fair trial so much as they refused to hold any trial at all.
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This is a lousy option, possibly unattainable, and it isn't a solution so much as a postponement of one.
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It wasn't the comments that bothered me so much as the fact that they came from people I knew.
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And that is not a judgment of the game quality so much as me being honest about my taste.
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The idea isn't really tied to any specific musical characteristics so much as it is a state of mind.
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It doesn't cohere as an argument so much as it overwhelms (maybe, alas, bores), like the internet's infinite scroll.
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"I don't see it so much as a career change," Herdman said of the shift from acting to fighting.
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"We're not so much an issues state so much as a patronage state," longtime political columnist Al Cross said.
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Sometimes, in "Spy of the First Person," the words do not reverberate so much as hiccup and free-associate.
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"There's almost a sharper edge in a way, in so much as there's some sense of totality," Ruskin said.
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"Nowadays, if you so much as tap a mountain with a bulldozer, bodies come pouring out," a character laments.
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Four years on, the truth of being financially alone is not jarring or life-changing so much as mundane.
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Stories get traded like favors, rumors outnumber facts and secrets aren't "secret" so much as they are actionable intelligence.
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Many Silicon Valley pundits go to war when anyone so much as suggests that tech's merits aren't uniformly positive.
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Perhaps not so much as a turning point, but rather a statement of our intentions and self-belief perhaps.
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So much as it is about you, and your families and the kind of country and future you want.
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This isn't an issue caused by the screw-ups of Brazilian officials, so much as it is just general misfortune.
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While the former has dropped a few promos already, the latter has yet to release so much as a gif.
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Many young or recently arrived Scots do not feel fear so much as bemusement at the chaps in bowler hats.
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Like phone calls, Snaps aren't intended to be stored so much as they're meant to be absorbed, decoded, and released.
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When Johns made "Flag" (1954-55), he wasn't rejecting subjectivity so much as merging a visceral experience with objective detachment.
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Her goal, as it's dramatized in the film, is to find ways to not challenge laws so much as precedents.
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BTS have crafted an album whose clean electronic surface doesn't mask the crunchier pleasures so much as tie them together.
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And if they see so much as the slightest shadow of your misdeeds, you'll need to take care of them.
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Okay, so you won't exactly be partying with her so much as near her, but that's plenty in our book.
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We can only do so much as physical humans, so it does help to do it at our own pace.
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So it's not about the content of Fox News programming so much as the influence they have on powerful people?
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Credentials require just the right amount of friction: enough to be trusted, not so much as to block career transitions.
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Now defence experts worry that investors are not seeking financial returns so much as insight into the plans of startups.
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The Addams Family doesn't feel like a singular narrative so much as a series of Saturday morning cartoons spliced together.
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Without so much as an announcement, funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and research was cut by the Trump administration.
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The ad, however, isn't about the necklace so much as it is about what's inside of the necklace: a tampon.
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With it, he can fire powerful energy blasts, scale buildings, and take gunfire without so much as blinking an eye.
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Well, not so much "looking for love" so much as grasping at any sign of romance I could possibly find.
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Just last week, the Hungarian parliament passed a law making it illegal to so much as help migrants and refugees.
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This is all very confusing, as none of the reviews cited above so much as mention the allegations against Lin.
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The actors in the movie aren't characters so much as they are tools, parts of a stylish Rube Goldberg machine.
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Except...CNN did not build so much as a little set in North Carolina, let alone a seven-figure studio.
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She has a knack for judging everyone around her without taking so much as a cursory glance at her actions.
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That's an interesting question, because I don't feel like I addressed the issues so much as just didn't ignore them.
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A grad school friend of mine once insisted she didn't miss her family so much as the flavors of home.
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We weren't going to sit down and write a song so much as talk and spark ideas off each other.
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Because only a squad this cool could pull off a heist this daring without so much as breaking a sweat.
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But when nothing came — not so much as a tribute post on either star's social media pages — the Beyhive swarmed.
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Since that awkward first couple of hours on the Oscars red carpet, he hasn't so much as missed a beat.
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Maybe she saw what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they so much as said a word about President Bush.
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If you ask Kashani, Serve won't replace Postmates' fleet of human workers so much as it will economize their routes.
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If he and Jack had so much as a fight before Jack's passing, it's unlikely he'd keep it from Rebecca.
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The important thing isn't the line so much as the distribution: Are the world's poorest people making more money overall?
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This is the GDE, and it reminds me of nothing so much as the GOE in its impact and implications.
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It's not a lesson so much as a resignation that your script can be thrown out two hours before showtime.
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Before Russ had so much as released the track, Virgin stepped in with the cheque book, and turbocharged it's ascent.
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I see the memorandum not as a nefarious bit of corporate malfeasance so much as a well-intentioned, misguided artifact.
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That didn't seem to be a result of timing the market so much as it was an escalating buyback strategy.
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At Sunday's debate, Donald Trump revealed that he is not running to be America's president so much as its dictator.
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Which is to say this wasn't some ambitious administration initiative so much as a "homework assignment," as Pace labels it.
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President, we haven't fought a 16-year war so much as we have fought a one-year war, 16 times.
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Fenech didn't have a chip on his shoulder so much as he had a little shoulder left underneath his chip.
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"The rest of this flight, that flight attendant would not so much as look me in the eyes," she said.
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I don't think about the future so much as the present, but I really try to think about the present.
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Good posture doesn't radically reconfigure alignment of the spine so much as it makes minor but important adjustments, Fischer adds.
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You're not playing an instrument so much as you're gently nudging a series of modulating sounds in a general direction.
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When the ask their attorney to find him, after he so much as searches him online his internet goes out.
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You always know when you have a cold or the flu, but cancer arrives without so much as a sniffle.
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There aren't many solutions for dealing with these Facebook issues so much as there are bandages for particularly difficult wounds.
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He's made clear that he doesn't care about Democratic unity so much as transforming the party in his progressive image.
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Pick-up artists aren't really concerned with courtship so much as domination, which is certainly how Trump views foreign policy.
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But it isn't wealth that is weaponized so much as the desperate maintenance of an inflexible version of Asian tradition.
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I felt like I grew so much as a songwriter and a producer around the time I changed my name.
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And so the absurd existential dread—we realized we both felt this similar feeling, not depression so much as meaninglessness.
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Not a concrete umbrella organisation so much as a concept, the manosphere contains groups whose ideologies sometimes coincide and clash.
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But the Davos set doesn't mind these policies so much—as long as they also include tax cuts and deregulation.
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I wasn't directed so much as given a series of props to make my way through, like an obstacle course.
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And paying attention to Mr. De Palma's mastery of them doesn't constitute nostalgia so much as a call to arms.
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Images like this do not exist to be looked at so much as they exist to be seen, or noticed.
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But the Freedom Caucus isn't backing off its support for a showdown on the wall so much as postponing it.
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His bilious speeches are issued like jeremiads; he doesn't deliver the dialogue so much as bite it off in chunks.
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The text keeps circling back to this question, not answering so much as expanding it: Where do we find pleasure?
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The problem started at the 258 London Olympics, when the country failed to take home so much as a bronze.
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Strangers who talked to him would have to reintroduce themselves if they so much as slipped out to the restroom.
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His performance is not an interpretation so much as a direct replica of the whistle-blower's even demeanor and intonation.
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The dominant force behind the recent Nasdaq slip wasn't a tech tumble so much as it was a momentum moratorium.
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They did not have so much as a leaf for shade, and the sun turned that trailer into an oven.
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The Golden Goose is carefully designed to scramble the contents of the egg without so much as tearing its shell.
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Mr. Atkins cited a desire for a broader audience only in so much as "to offer people alternatives," he said.
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One by one, they unloaded their bags and, without so much as a "thank you" or even "goodbye," set off.
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Too many of us don't care about our military so much as we care about the image of our military.
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It is a lovely thing, not mysticism so much as an exploration of religious consciousness within the terms of Christianity.
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There's an old quip that voters do not choose their elected officials so much as elected officials choose their voters.
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Perhaps. Should Republican senators be worried about voter backlash if they refuse to give him so much as a hearing?
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But in a way, I don't know that I had relentless confidence in myself so much as in the music.
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The ideas are worth pursuing, so much as they can be pursued, but proper answers are a long ways off.
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This is not to cut the Hardys down so much as it is an attempt to get them into context.
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That extremely short clip, which doesn't constitute an accusation so much as an insinuation, apparently hurt Love's own acting career.
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And so, because it represents forward progress, I don't see it so much as a compromise as a first step.
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Some research suggests that creativity doesn't come from happiness or sadness so much as from a variety of contrasting emotions.
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When she takes full flight, the crowd's not singing along, so much as singing backups to an Olympian-level vocalist.
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Like all miracles, Ellen's redemption did not offer a panacea for homophobia so much as a glimpse of what's possible.
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Situated in a bucolic area of northern Poland, Chelmno was not a camp so much as a mobile killing factory.
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If she so much as consumes buffalo milk or butter, the buffalo themselves will get sick and stop producing milk.
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But you've never even so much as wiped the grime and dirt from the valleys between the buttons, have you?
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They had been bought not as a financial investment, expecting a return, so much as an emotional one, demanding none.
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They aren't amending the DPA, so much as directing the president to use the law explicitly for this particular purpose.
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As for Bruce, the slugger with three home runs, he has yet to take so much as a practice swing.
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We don't contemplate the paintings so much as attempt to grasp the conflicting elements that energize their clamoring internal spaces.
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Apple didn't so much as hint at the rumored product, leaving us wondering when or if we'll ever see it.
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In Italy, the Five Star Movement began not so much as a party but as an online decision-making platform.
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That's all complicated by the vast distance between the West and the Soviet Union, not geographically so much as ideologically.
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His concatenations of concentric, looping forms don't define an overall shape so much as register a controlled whirlwind of paint.
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To the contrary, many worried that no one would build so much as a Quonset hut in this city again.
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Well it wasn't surprising so much as really, deeply dispiriting, how divided people are, and how heated the rhetoric is.
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The bunk-king contraption, with a metal-mesh railing for safety, resembled nothing so much as an oversize hamster cage.
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The decision didn't feel like a conscious move to Ithaca, so much as it was an escape from New York.
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Didn't think of it as teaching so much as conversations with other writers, often moved from classrooms into cafes, bars.
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Malmo doesn't call to mind the Swedish coast so much as fire bombs planted outside a Jewish burial chapel. Copenhagen?
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Maybe I read so much as a child because I had so much free time, and so much to learn.
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I wonder if your outlook is shaped by your background, the way you moved around so much as a kid.
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But he doesn't mind, he said — even when they leave without movie tickets or even so much as Swedish Fish.
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"In other words, our culture doesn't punish parents so much as it punishes mothers, and especially working ones," Jennifer wrote.
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Since then, it seems like everyone has been on better behavior, in so much as there have been no fisticuffs.
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She did not coast into the 2020s so much as trudge there through a barren patch of nearly three years.
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We had gotten stomach cramps from laughing so much, as if we had been doing hours and hours of Pilates.
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Bagg takes the opposite approach; crowd work is not a means to an end so much as the goal itself.
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The doctors later told him that any sudden movement — so much as a sneeze — could have cost him his life.
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But when BoJack concluded with its final eight episodes, it wasn't interested in a laugh so much as a reckoning.
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It wasn't a single structure so much as an idea about how art can, and should, function in the world.
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But we have this other side that's curious, that doesn't cringe from difference so much as find inspiration in it.
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Speaking of Kodak, Google's ad reminds me of nothing so much as the famous Mad Men Don Draper Carousel pitch.
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It didn't remove me from the picture so much as cover me over with glitchy looking copies of my room.
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If a small branch so much as dropped on the tin roof, I knew that was the end for me.
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"I am so outraged that they would do this without so much as a by-your-leave," she told reporters.
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He said America gave him so much, as his own country Turkey took it away — his reputation, family, his citizenship.
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When they do drop, some don't go down so much as sideways, the result of their impaired sense of gravity.
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Bruno had for his entire life associated backgammon with candor, the dice not determining fate so much as revealing character.
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What's especially maddening, though, is not Ranbaxy's moral lapses so much as the structural flaws that kept it in business.
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But then the Falcons have blasted their way to consecutive playoff victories without so much as a 60-yard rusher.
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When Mr. Arum agreed to bankroll Mr. Conlan's career, he was not buying a fighter so much as an attitude.
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And not really her character so much as something she did — something personal, offbeat, radical, and in my case salvational.
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As he worked through the throng, Dr. Muderis, 211, never sat or even so much as leaned on a desk.
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The lesson, as ever: The Patriots are not vulnerable so much as they are procrastinators, evolving before they can pounce.
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He didn't leave horror to make a romance so much as show us that romance was always inherent in horror.
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The US doesn't benefit by stealing other countries' oil, so much as the free flow of product on global markets.
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There are attempts to explain the tension, but they never feel organic so much as they feel like clumsy exposition.
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The Bowery pop-up wasn't selling anything so much as giving away a free Views t-shirt compliments of OVO.
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But the Adorers of the Blood of Christ has refused to so much as meet with Williams, according to Stockton.
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In Eisenstein's thinking, which was tinged with violence, individual shots are not so much as linked together, but in conflict.
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The present rotation is nothing so much as a kind of Plan E, arrived at after years of offseason misfortune.
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These are the stars who say everything they think without so much as a pause — but definitely with an eye roll.
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Laura, you've said that it wasn't the case so much as the person that first attracted you to work with Steve.
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Both are years-old franchises, dating from the PS1 days—before Shadow was so much as a dream of Fumito Ueda's.
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On that issue, Trump hasn't really polarized the public so much as he's united it in opposition to restrictive immigration policies.
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It's not about reading your future so much as a way of talking about your experiences and what's happening to you.
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The star seems to have powered through the snafu though, not giving it so much as a mention on social media.
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Not a thumbs up, nor a thumbs down, so much as a collective indifference to the end of once key feature.
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They'd occasionally remark that I was a feminine boy, but never made so much as a nod toward my trans identity.
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I did not want to go back, and I didn't miss my family's presence so much as I felt their absence.
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They show garages full of mechanical marvels that you'd never be allowed to so much as test-drive in real life.
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Maybe that's why Leto plays Nick with uncharacteristic reserve, as if he's not a character so much as the audience's avatar.
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And I haven't heard so much as a faint whisper from them since the moment I stepped out of the airplane.
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My formative sexual education came not from my peers or school or parents so much as it came from the internet.
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If the ground moves so much as a half-inch in either direction, work will stop until a solution is found.
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The site isn't measuring a movie's quality so much as it's measuring whether a movie is mostly good or mostly bad.
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And the movie doesn't have a finale so much as a voiceover promise that the story will continue down the road.
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But I don't think it's really a break from that format so much as just an equally goofy extension of it.
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Inside, there's a huge display for the driver, plus seats and interior lighting that evoke nothing quite so much as Tron.
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What if love is never "meant to be," so much as it's the product of will and coincidence and hard work?
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But it's not considered randomly dangerous so much as it's highly reactive with cardiac disorders, certain mental conditions, and other drugs.
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Start with the observation that America has voted not for a change of party so much as a change of regime.
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On the abuse front, the problem isn't a lack of transparency so much as a lack of consistent tools and policies.
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But it's all complicated by the vast distance between the West and the Soviet Union, not geographically so much as ideologically.
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I'm not sure why I relate to Scout's story so much, as I grew up in Ohio, not the rural south.
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But Idol was never about the quality of the music so much as it was about sharing the contestants' survival experience.
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People taking this as a party, disrespectfully coming to take photos without even so much as leaving flowers or a card.
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But, whatever Keats said, truth is not beauty so much as it is hard work—especially when you disagree with it.
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What went down between Taylor Swift and the Wests doesn't matter so much as their fans' reactions to it via emoji.
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Of course, if you've never so much as read your weekly horoscope, the realm of astrology can appear vast and daunting.
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Anti doesn't strut so much as slink, steady with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what she wants to say.
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And someof the biggest recent investments in the Coindesk list are not Bitcoin companies so much as companies developing spinoff technologies.
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Still, some schools don't even have the resources to hire so much as one mental health expert to handle serious cases.
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There's no mention of numbers, calories, or fat burn, and it doesn't feel like a workout so much as a meditation.
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BEFORE THE 278 presidential election, Kirsten Hirsch was so lawabiding that she had never received so much as a parking ticket.
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It's a hologram, basically, but it doesn't really pop out of the screen so much as give you depth within it.
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This caused many problems — in the end, the proposal died without so much as a single vote on a concrete proposal.
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DeMonaco's innovation doesn't come from the narrative or its execution, so much as from the world in which it takes place.
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While her father argued at length about these subjects on the election trail, Ivanka hasn't uttered so much as a peep.
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She said she loved the song so much as a kid that she memorized all of the lyrics, the station reported.
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"We weren't really focused on hitting a particular number so much as making the wedding feel a certain way," he says.
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And for that matter, Clinton and Obama aren't preemptively absolving Republicans so much as offering Republicans an opportunity to absolve themselves.
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You know, I didn't realize I was going to enjoy being a father so much, as probably mushy as it sounds.
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That law will yank foreign aid from any nongovernmental organization that so much as discusses abortion as an option with patients.
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Philip, Gabriel's troubled prodigal proxy son, didn't say goodbye so much as confront him, grimly staring him down in the shadows.
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So many of us inherently trust the cable person to have done everything right without so much as a quick inspection.
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While many of us can't so much as unfriend our living ex-partners, one grandma found a way to move on.
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But if her first look went by without so much as a mention, her second performance look was impossible to miss.
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Leavitt's invention isn't for playing pranks so much as just standing there, kicking yourself in the butt, and hyucking it up.
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"I don't think we're secretive so much as we don't like to talk about our work until it's complete," Koller said.
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Listen, just about anyone would faint if Adele so much as handed them a wad of chewing gum from her mouth.
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And if you've ever had so much as a quick glance at his Twitter feed, you probably already know which way.
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Pence was also allegedly displeased with Trump, 72, as Lewis wrote that she "wouldn't so much as say hello" to him.
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But here it seems scattershot, not working to characterize the villains of Mafia III so much as to fill auditory gaps.
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Contrary to common sense, the trick to mental relaxation isn't powering off the brain so much as switching up its focus.
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As a writer, I feel like I don't choose what I'm going to write about so much as it chooses me.
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In the past, Saudi women have been arrested for so much as posting a picture of themselves without these garments on.
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In fact, upon further questioning, he acknowledged that the DEA has, to date, never even so much as reviewed the issue.
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But he's doing something else here: not lying so much as simply refusing to do a basic part of his job.
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Many saw Obama's 'apology tour,' not so much as a repudiation of the Bush Doctrine, but a repudiation of American exceptionalism.
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Earning so much as a teenager "was a culture shock," he told The New York Times Magazine in a 2019 interview.
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When I started following Willis, I wasn't looking for signs of Moore so much as a sign of the pair's relationship.
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Sure, although this was never really about getting justice for Hulk Hogan, so much as it was about destroying the outlet.
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The work did not seem hard so much as unending: some people were napping, their heads resting on the sewing tables.
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They'd just had enough of living with each other, though not with each other so much as with anyone , I think.
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It's not about getting rid of the dissociative state so much as giving it a syntax, a coherence, a social function.
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The problem wasn't Trident Juncture itself per se so much as if a crisis emerged and both sides upped the ante.
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But his own company, Run Gum, cannot so much as wish him good luck on Twitter without potentially violating Rule 40.
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At 9, I felt as though home was turning its back on me now without so much as a wave goodbye.
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Restaurant spending shifted in all demographics, but none so much as millennials, also known as Gen Y on the following chart.
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As a sufferer (and that is the word), I say that agoraphobia hasn't ravaged my life so much as become it.
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But the show, which Mr. Glover created, doesn't obsess over that premise nearly so much as explore its felicitous human topography.
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"No-one has ever published even so much as an interview with a macrophile in an academic journal," he tells Broadly.
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So I wouldn't think of it as China defending North Korea so much as China defending China's interests within North Korea.
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Honestly, it's a bit surprising the Julie lookalike doesn't get so much as a suspicious glance out of Hays or West.
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Its creators are not offering a tsking exposé on Wall Street so much as they're luxuriating in the excesses of power.
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These didn't feel like strategic choices so much as a result of needing literally to fill space — vertical, horizontal, intellectual, psychological.
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But even though he's a two-way star and household name, Horford won't alter Boston's system so much as augment it.
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Virtually all my friends from World of Warcraft enjoy it, but no one likes it, apparently, so much as the Chinese.
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Marnie doesn't seem hurt so much as annoyed, and is concerned about what it's going to do to their musical relationship.
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It's like we never really have an ending to our stories, because your perspective changes so much as you're going through.
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There's no way this theatrical run even so much as makes a dent in the $15 million the movie reportedly cost.
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Big Wednesday does not have a plot so much as self-contained sections spanning the years 19703, 1965, 1968, and 1974.
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After that, though, each bite makes it clearer that you're not eating a chocolate bar so much as chocolate-covered chalk.
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It is nothing so much as a series of pratfalls by inept leaders and the suckers who follow them toward doom.
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It's important to stay informed, but past a certain point, checking for updates is not informing so much as agitating you.
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What this means is that, as consumers, we should be asking questions not about the processing so much as the ingredients.
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As of now, Senate Republicans are refusing to give Garland — or any other Supreme Court nominee — so much as a hearing.
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Philip D. Murphy and Dannel P. Malloy that was surprising so much as the fact that it was happening at all.
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It's not that the game itself feels exciting, so much as the existence of the game makes the world feel exciting.
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The Texans cut him loose without asking him so much as a question, and no other N.F.L. team would touch him.
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These are not threads so much as needles, jabbing the reader to a heightened state of attention and then slipping away.
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Mr. Daniels, the city manager, has barred city employees from accepting so much as a cup of coffee from local businesses.
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Before last season, McVay's first as coach, the offensive linemen recognized they were not being coached so much as being taught.
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