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
Laymen seeing it for the first time could make little of the plot and all its sundry subplots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Slower minds could make little of it beyond the fact that he has not yet lost his skill in epi-grammatics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At first I could make little of what was said, for she muttered low, and moved her head this way and that, and moaned like a stricken ewe.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona
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