stop short

While dating pigments and other elements to Malevich's lifetime, the reports stop short of claiming the works were painted by the artist.

Neoliberal Democrats often serve such conservatives as convenient scapegoats because they, too, stop short of challenging capitalism’s relentless dissolution of civic-republican virtue.

It will be enough to harm their opponent, especially their infrastructure assets, but stop short of being an attributable act of war.

Oddly, some people still stop short of characterizing “Andor” as commentary on fascism, although parallels between the Empire and Adolf Hitler's Third Reich abound.

The first minister will "call out" UK government welfare cuts in a speech on Tuesday but will stop short of demanding they be scrapped.