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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Or more to the point, is Capri Holdings, Versace‘s American corporate owner, about to say goodbye to Donatella? Versace’s contract with Capri Holdings expires in February and, if media reports and widespread rumors are to be believed, Donatella’s future at her family’s firm is uncertain. Mattia Dognini, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025 But there's still a lot to like about Skype--and, more to the point, for Microsoft to like. IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2011 Or, more to the point, there was back in 2020, but malware has evolved since then. Davey Winder, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 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 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 18 Jan. 2025.

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