much less

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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So Lightfoot isn’t merely a loser, she’s an ugly one mistakenly elected by dumb Democrats, while the teacher may be actually be a con artist, “the greatest troll in the history of trolls,” exposing “the lunacy of the woke agenda in a world where no one dares criticize her, much less pass a dress code policy without fear of being labeled a transphobe.”

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The cosmic expansion history results suggest that over the last several billion years or so, the density of dark energy has decreased by about 10 percent -- not much, and much less than the densities of other matter and energy, but still significant.

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They also set a much less specific target of helping raise $1.3 trillion annually by 2035 from public and private sources.

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For the authors, the payouts were much less so.

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As a first step, he needs to realize that the deal he helped strike—though impressive—did not end the conflict, much less sprout everlasting peace.

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