make little of
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The documents also show that the pressure to make little of the differences between the MAX and the previous model extended to certification of the aircraft, including systems important to safety.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2020
Generally, Creed likes to make little of nothing very much: a tiny tower of Lego, seven nails of ascending sizes banged into the wall, a slender ziggurat of planks.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2010
Forward Gavin Smith from Van Nuys, Calif., for next year, tried to make little of his latest acquisition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laymen seeing it for the first time could make little of the plot and all its sundry subplots.
From Time Magazine Archive
She aimed evidently at two points, not easily attained together,—to make little of the whole matter of dress, and, at the same time, bring it under the control of a high Christian rule.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
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