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if only



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I wish that. For example, If only I had known you were coming I would have met your plane , or If only it would snow on Christmas Eve . [c. a.d. 1000] For a synonym, see would that .
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I have some numbers here: If only people who had voted in 2022 had voted, Harris would have won the popular vote and also the Electoral College fairly easily.

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Ted goes, “If only we had one more song … You guys got any ideas?”

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This Court should not be fooled by the good deeds defendant promises to accomplish if only he could close the detention doors behind him.”

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Calling Abrego Garcia’s plight a “distraction,” even if only on the narrow issue of gang membership, as Newsom’s office later clarified was his intent, is flat-out wrong.

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She arranges for the wedding to continue as planned, if only to appease Min’s grandfather, who stayed behind in Korea.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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