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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The document would never have seen daylight if not for her work.
  — Cameron Joseph, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Most of the results of other local races have been clear, if not official, for weeks.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
• What is the intention of those military moves if not to prepare for war?
  — CBS News, 22 Sep. 2024
• So if not your family, then half of your friends’ families.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024