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[ adverb ] if nothing else
Synonyms Examples "at least he survived" "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary" "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching" (`leastwise' is informal `leastways' is colloquial) Used in print ("Editorials"...)But at_least the pessimists who believed that the world_organization had plunged to its death in that plane crash in the Congo have been proved wrong . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)At_least this seemed to be the working hypothesis for `` Chicago and All That Jazz '' , presented on NBC - TV Nov. 26 . (The Providence Journal...)But at_least it 's reassuring to see some teenagers who do n't profess to know all the answers and are thinking_about their problems instead . Most of the female faces are new , or at_least not too familiar . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)However , even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming , at_least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] not less than
Synonyms Examples "at least two hours studying the manual" "a tumor at least as big as an orange" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Grover also would require junior senior_high teachers to have at_least 24 semester_hours credit in the subject they are teaching . ("Editorials"...)He seems to have at_least a_few 30 - and 50 - megaton_bombs on_hand , since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)You will need a stereo music system , with speakers preferably placed at_least seven or eight feet apart , and one or more of the new London `` Phase 4 '' records . There is an extraordinary sense of presence in all of these recordings , apparently obtained at_least in part by emphasizing the middle and high_frequencies . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)When we say , then , that today , in our situation , the demand for demythologization must be accepted without condition , we are simply saying that at_least this much of the liberal tradition is an enduring achievement . |
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