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• But the day-to-day work of the Tevatron was not especially glamorous.
  — Samia Bouzid, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
• Though not especially roomy, the master suite has enough space for a wee sitting area in the bedroom.
  — James McClain, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2024
• This is a hard question to answer, and one I was not especially engaged by.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• Wickline is the straight role but does not especially land the dark comedy.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2024
• Its driver pay, which varies by city, is not especially high.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Polls are not the same as elections, and Trump’s electoral record is not especially impressive.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 May 2023
• The two were not especially close friends but had known each other for years through New York politics and real estate.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• David Montes: Both those pieces of evidence were not especially strange, given the general state of his house.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
• They are not especially attracted to human blood and do not crave human flesh.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Voter turnout was not especially high this year, Mr. Morales says, but citizens seemed to wake up when the first-round election results were announced.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
• And the conditions in the water at the time Mallett was rescued were not especially hazardous or dangerous.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• In a street rich in halal butchers and supermarkets, Ms. Rashid does not especially stand out.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
• On its own, the first version of the Limitless system is not especially unusual.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2024
• Left out of that picture, though, is all the work that’s necessary for decarbonization and not especially profitable.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
• The afternoon, at least, was not especially bright with vernal promise.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• Blow them away Mosquitoes are not especially strong fliers, so adding a fan to your patio can be an effective deterrent.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• At the same time, 49 is not especially uncomfortable, even with only a bare minimum of sunshine.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• The evidence that pro-life views have hurt Republican politicians during the last year is not especially robust.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Sep. 2023
• This quarantine doesn’t come easy to Woo-jin (Seo Hyun-woo), a new father who’s not especially superstitious and feels ambivalent about parenting in the first place.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• In an era of global warming, that's not especially surprising.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
• The protest itself was not especially disruptive — even the police said protesters were peaceful.
  — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 3 May 2024
• Some of the survivors were not especially political; some had come to the previous Kaplan Street demonstrations.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• But there is a sizable portion who are not especially pleased with his overall job performance as president and many would like the president to take a different approach to the Israel-Hamas war.
  — Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
• That’s not especially surprising, for a couple of reasons.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 3 July 2024
• The work is tense, but usually not especially dangerous.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• Murder trials, day to day, are not especially exciting to cover.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
• There are plenty of series these days that probably do work best in binge mode, series that are like popcorn — filled with air, not especially nutritional, and addictive.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• Many of these new buildings occupy docks areas that, if hardly no go in this gentlest of cities, were previously not especially inviting.
  — Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Born and raised in Wilmington, N.C., a beach town near the southern edge of the state, her family was socially conservative but not especially political.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 12 July 2024
• But Hooper is not especially concerned about an imminent recession as a result.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024