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[ adverb ] perhaps; indicating possibility of being more remarkable (greater or better or sooner) than
Examples "will yield 10% if not more" "pretty if not actually beautiful" "let's meet tonight if not sooner" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)Yet for much of the globe , Hollywood is just that - prime , if_not sole , source of knowledge . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)The underlying assumption , of_course , is that only sight and touch enable us , in any precise and fully dependable way , to locate objects in space beyond us , the other senses being decidedly inferior , if_not totally inadequate , in this regard . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)If_not , how long to order and what is the price '' ? (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Flatness may now monopolize everything , but it is a flatness become so ambiguous and expanded as to turn_into illusion itself - at_least an optical if_not , properly_speaking , a pictorial illusion . |
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