so much as

“I respect him so much as an actor, I think I was also just intimidated by him as well.”

Mandhana did not so much as set the tone, but crank the volume up to full blast as she and Rawal put on the highest partnership against Australia in Women's World Cup history.

Walking away from Europe wouldn’t punish the EU so much as reward China, and accepting the reforms would encourage American companies to walk away themselves.

France isn’t sleepwalking toward a fiscal and economic crisis so much as running headlong into one.

There wasn’t so much as a whisper about aviation.