so much as

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I asked ChatGPT, too, and it spit out a whole seminar on how to listen better and “consider her love language,” without so much as a one-click discounted bath bomb in sight.

From Barron's

May none of the ghouls from that disgraceful company get to enjoy so much as a single nice breeze on the new airport’s two acres of outdoor terraces.

From Slate

His face is a conversation between his pleased smile and astonished eyes, expressions pushed just far enough into caricature to register as comic, but never so much as to violate the integrity of the character.

From Los Angeles Times

The ambigrammist doesn’t impose an alien structure on the letterforms so much as uncover a potential already present in them and their viewers, whose brains helpfully resolve ambiguity from context and prior knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it’s not the house that’s haunted so much as the couple.

From Los Angeles Times