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And certainly not, as in He rarely talks about his outside activities, much less his family. The earliest record of this idiom is in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1671): “The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory.”

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Sheinbaum never called for street protests, much less violence.

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While Flanagan understands humanity’s penchant for complacency in the face of chaos, his script does little to elucidate the reasons people turn a blind eye to their fellow humans’ suffering, much less pose any solutions.

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He also chairs the committee overseeing the bill’s proposed expansion of the southern border wall, and he wants to give the administration much less money for it than the White House is requesting.

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Frankly, I’m not sure any social media—much less an underresourced startup whose leaders prioritize steady operation over far-flung growth—is equipped to handle these clashes of reality right now.

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But the president has not announced plans to join—much less preside over—their festive, if less grandiose, celebrations.

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