more to the point

idiom

: more importantly
If you drive while drunk, you could lose your license, but even more to the point, you could kill someone.

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And maybe more to the point, there is nothing all that unique about the Red Bulls’ presence in the final game of the Major League Soccer season, having finished in the top half of the 15-team Eastern Conference table. Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024 But more to the point: other countries are not accepting this tradeoff between health and prosperity, and there is no reason the United States should either. Jeremy Konyndyk, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2020 And more to the point, when should the lab experiment be treated—legally and ethically—as human? Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024 The general nature of these seizures refers more to the point of origin than signs and symptoms. Smita Patel, Verywell Health, 19 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for more to the point 

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“More to the point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20to%20the%20point. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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