so much as

Example Sentences

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But even that pull toward something messier and more immediate doesn’t sit outside the festival so much as become another version of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

Vincent Kompany achieved so much as a player at Manchester City that he has a statue outside Etihad Stadium.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right,” he wrote External link in Resistance to Civil Government, the essay known as Civil Disobedience.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

These are not novels that pull you forward so much as hold you in place—patient, thorough evocations of a vanished world, almost Proustian at times, especially as they progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

They weren’t actually going to greet her so much as they were going to spy on her.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti