nothing so much as

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used for emphasis
It looks like nothing so much as a big stick.

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This is particularly apparent in Pearce’s Harrison Lee Van Buren, who, with his tawny skin and bristly mustache, resembles nothing so much as a lion ready to pounce. Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024 Yet from Munich to the Cuban missile crisis to nuclear proliferation, recent history is replete with instances of international politics resembling nothing so much as a poker game. David A. Bell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012 The concert hall, constructed of curving amber-colored wood, resembles nothing so much as the interior of a giant cello. Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024 And Maddie will soon be wishing for nothing so much as to have her wish undone. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024 Without it, the internet would resemble nothing so much as an after-hours arcade, lifeless and dark. Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024 In the course of the book, the diminutive economist, who stood just over five feet tall, comes to seem like nothing so much as a welterweight boxer. Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024 Despite a fragmented narrative and a couple of interesting characters, very little in Culprits feels all that modern and nothing so much as flirts with abstraction. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023 Polsky peppers the film with Will’s dreams and hallucinations, sequences that resemble nothing so much as the bad LSD trips in drug-centric 1960s exploitation flicks, and are more annoying than illuminating. Joe Leydon, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023

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“Nothing so much as.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nothing%20so%20much%20as. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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