not in the least
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She insisted she was not in the least bit techy and was able to build her company after a lot of sleepless nights, research and "bugging people" who know about tech.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
I will refrain from stating exactly how long it had been since I, personally, had made a Cranberry Chiffon Pie before this past Thanksgiving — but I was not concerned, not in the least.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024
Things have gotten better since then, not in the least because the studio Field got her first full-time job at in 2012 was sold in 2016, and she and her co-worker, Ed Brooks, bought it.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022
Her mice, which became the subjects of poetry she wrote in her free time, were not in the least monstrous, she found, and provided fundamental insight into the understanding of genetics and, in time, cancer.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022
Traveling upon the peach was not in the least like traveling in an airplane.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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