not to say
idiom
—used to introduce a more forceful or critical way of describing someone or something
He was impolite, not to say downright rude!
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That’s not to say the carriers won’t still benefit in the immediate short term from the recent higher prices for U.S.-destined cargo.
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2025
That’s not to say that the dozens of other documentaries were bad films.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
That’s not to say there weren’t reasons to go proprietary, or that Alienware is promising to do this on every PC.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
That’s not to say the world’s first laptop with a rolling display comes without a caveat, however, because there’s a big one: the price.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2025
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2025
That’s not to say that the dozens of other documentaries were bad films.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
That’s not to say there weren’t reasons to go proprietary, or that Alienware is promising to do this on every PC.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
That’s not to say the world’s first laptop with a rolling display comes without a caveat, however, because there’s a big one: the price.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Not to say.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20to%20say. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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