so much as
Example Sentences
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"It wasn't so much as like a celebration, just thank God I'm done. I can just lay down for a second."
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
The DLR researchers stress that the two rockets are not direct competitors so much as different solutions to different problems.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
After extensive research, I could not find so much as a marker, on-site or elsewhere, commemorating the lives lost.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
“I don’t think it’s a lack of patriotism, so much as a determination that no presidential administration should be able to center itself as the focus of that patriotism,” Rudalevige said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
I left my aunts on a frigid morning without so much as a goodbye.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
