let alone
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Outside of a brief period in part of 2024 and 2025, the headline PCE has not been below 2.5% since early 2021, let alone 2%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026
Questions about its finances — let alone about its ownership — were swept under the rug.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Only a handful of world leaders are expected to come to the pre-COP gathering in Fiji, let alone make the extra trip to Tuvalu.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
We had this revolving door of carers looking after my mum, and I didn't even know their name - let alone how the care was going.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
These ogres did not have multiphasic glob coils or photonic scramblers, let alone an intergalactic teleporter.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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