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Also, could care less. Be completely indifferent. For example, Pick whatever dessert you want; I couldn't care less, or I could care less about the editor's opinion. This expression originated about 1940 in Britain and for a time invariably used couldn't. About 1960 could was occasionally substituted, and today both versions are used with approximately equal frequency, despite their being antonyms.

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Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
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Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.
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Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
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For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
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No one wants to align with less freedom at a time like this.
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In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
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He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
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He did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!
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One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
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I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.
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