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let alone

verb as in deregulate

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In part, I needed a trainer to keep me from dropping a barbell on myself; plus I had no clue how to safely do a squat, let alone design an effective workout.

In it, Baroness Hallett said the UK had been "ill-prepared for dealing with a catastrophic emergency, let alone the coronavirus pandemic".

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"I never met him in my life and never passed any greetings, let alone requests," he said.

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She deviated from Tuesday’s up-with-Saudi-Arabia! agenda to ask the hard questions of powerful men not used to being questioned about anything, let alone murder.

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What followed was some of the most astonishing, elegant and clean ball-striking you could see from any Test batter, let alone a 19-year-old number 11 on debut.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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