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not to mention

conj

Definitions

  1. An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given…

    An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.

    • The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall.
    • In fact, the immortal tunemeister Irving Berlin wrote all three [songs], along with about 1,500 others, not to mention the scores for eighteen Hollywood films and nineteen Broadway musicals.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for not to mention. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA