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Idioms  

1. And certainly not, as in He rarely talks about his outside activities, much less his family. The earliest record of this idiom is in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1671): “The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory.”

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much less

The team showed that people carrying certain clones of immune cells produced by mutated blood stem cells were much less likely to develop Alzheimer's.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

A much less costly way to get European citizenship is by descent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Admittedly,” the authors write, “principles take time to understand, much less put into practice and develop into a culture. They require frequent, regular, and correct practice.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"They're much less hairy than other pigs - Rana had ginger fuzz when she was born, but that's gone now," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Do you know what you want, much less what I want?

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan