not that
idiom
—used to say that something said before is not important
I tried to help, not that it mattered.
I saw him with some other woman, not that I care.
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Take, for example, Chu’s stance on free speech, which, in its willingness to limit the power of the state but not that of private actors, can be read as perhaps the most classically liberal stance of them all.
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S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
Whether or not that anonymous source had much to do with his slide is unknown.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
This is, this is a way to make a lot of enemies and not that many friends.
—Will Steakin, ABC News, 1 May 2025
No, not that Portishead — the English village of Portishead, a little town in the idyllic countryside of Somerset, where Grammer purchased a 200-year-old cottage in 2023.
—Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2025
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S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
Whether or not that anonymous source had much to do with his slide is unknown.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
This is, this is a way to make a lot of enemies and not that many friends.
—Will Steakin, ABC News, 1 May 2025
No, not that Portishead — the English village of Portishead, a little town in the idyllic countryside of Somerset, where Grammer purchased a 200-year-old cottage in 2023.
—Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for not that
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“Not that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20that. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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