by no stretch
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Even then, "by no stretch of imagination can Suri be associated with anything unlawful", one of his professors from Jamia told the BBC.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
"I wasn’t prepared for them, by no stretch of imagination coming into the season."
From Fox News • Jan. 5, 2022
“While street wisdom is that Evergrande is not a ‘Lehman risk’, it is by no stretch of the imagination any meaningful comfort,” analysts at Mizuho wrote in a client note.
From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2021
This isn’t a lifetime ban for the Astros, by no stretch of the imagination.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2020
At the time of the Restoration, or even for a year or two after it, such language could, by no stretch of courtesy, have been applied to Dryden.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
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