so much as

Idioms and Phrases

see as much as , def. 3.

Example Sentences

It's not about boycotting men in order to change them so much as no longer wasting time on men at all.

From Salon

Lloyd’s expressionistic production doesn’t demand that Scherzinger act so much as strike poses.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, Biden wins funding for hundreds of billions in infrastructure and there’s not so much as a poster at the site of these projects explaining what it is and who advocated for its funding.

From Salon

Indeed, Apple’s conclusion matches earlier studies that have found that large language models, or LLMs, don’t actually “think” so much as match language patterns in materials they’ve been fed as part of their “training.”

From Los Angeles Times

It’s not because Harris is collapsing, per se, so much as she’s been stuck at 48 or 49 percent of the vote while Trump has been steadily catching up.

From Slate

Related Words

• indeed
• much