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• There was slowness in the desert, if not the desert itself.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
• The racetrack also expects to have close to — if not all — of the weeks in 2025 booked up by the end of the year.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
• For the past two decades—if not my whole life—I’ve been talking about jeans.
  — Jane Herman, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
• The Cardinals are expected to be one of the worst teams, if not the worst, in the NFL.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• The bank said earnings would have been better if not for the one-time items.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
• The time scale of the shutter or the strobe must match the time scale of motion of the object – if not, the image will be blurred.
  — Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• For Google, the stakes are equally high, if not higher.
  — Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
• When to Floss: Our experts agree that flossing should be done once a day, if not more.
  — Cara Milhaven Published, Health, 10 July 2024
• All of these statutes were dead by the Roaring ’20s, if not earlier.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• But her nails do have a very summery — if not downright springy — feel.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 4 Oct. 2023
• Coaches at most, if not all, of those schools likely earn more than Hoke.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Amazon Prime Day has long been lauded as one of the largest, if not the largest, online shopping events of the year.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• Mirabal is one of the best if not the best offensive line coaches in the country.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• Outlook: Rondon is one of the top point guards in Northern Kentucky, if not the state.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2024
• On the studio side, there is hope if not quite optimism that a deal can be reached soon.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023
• All along, the Dodgers were seen as front-runners, if not outright favorites, to land Ohtani.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• How can anyone prove, skeptics ask, that a forest would have been torn down if not for the project?
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Many, if not all, already do — but such rules were not evenly enforced in the last year.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• This song certainly gets her closer, if not all the way there yet.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2024
• With Brady retired, all four teams will feature a new QB1 … if not much of a Q rating.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• And what are movies, if not an echo of those experiences?
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• The film takes place in what appears to be a very near future, if not an alternate present.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
• The characters, most of whom have been living on the North Shore for years if not decades, bemoan the changing times.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2024
• These are all complaints that experts have been lodging for weeks, if not longer.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 26 June 2024
• The show’s supporting cast is good, if not as memorable as Brown and Frieden.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
• The model then is trained to remove this noise, over and over, for tens of thousands, if not millions, of images.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
• The writers are smart enough to give their characters hundreds — if not thousands, for some of them — years to learn and change and grow.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
• This would create thousands, if not millions, of jobs throughout the U.S.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2024
• At this point, gums will begin to bleed if not already and pus could be apparent.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2023
• IndieWire has polled 66 critics who attended one or more of these festivals to name their picks for best film, best screenplay, best director, and best first feature, and the results are fascinating, if not exactly shocking.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024