How to Use so much as in a Sentence

so much as

adverb
Definition of so much asnext
  • But on a recent tour of the lab and design workshop, the focus wasn’t on the new so much as the old.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This isn’t about the Padres so much as the Dodgers, about their juvenile flock, about baseball.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Will Hardy asks him to be a linchpin of the team, not a creator so much as a scoring connector.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The result is not an anachronism so much as a studied anachronism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • But she’s obviously evolved so much as an artist and as a woman.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Sometimes, impending death is not the focus of a Black Christmas film so much as a longing for those who have already passed.
    — Jumoke Balogun, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Ecosystems aren’t landscape paintings so much as mosaics, with different pieces that grow and change over time.
    — Maya L. Kapoor / High Country News, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2023
  • This is not a failing of the federal government, so much as a challenge of modern-day governance.
    — Jonathan Abel, Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Price shocks, the thinking goes, are not the result of an inherently volatile global supply chain so much as standalone disruptions to trade.
    — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • An emergency declaration doesn’t change the balance of forces in society so much as create a new contest over them.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 July 2022
  • Perhaps there was not an ethical problem so much as a setting-expectations problem.
    — Sundog, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Activity in this sense isn’t about your workouts so much as your day-to-day activity; getting up from the couch, walking up the stairs, or other basic movements shouldn’t leave you wheezing or feeling exhausted.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Figure that the internet looms large in the work of the college educated and non-college educated alike, but a lot of us (including yours truly) never had so much as a computer in high school, college, or business school.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • At the time, the biggest concern was not biosafety so much as biosecurity - keeping sensitive experimental data out of the hands of terrorists and rogue scientists.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • In typical McNally fashion, there wasn’t quite an apology so much as another post explaining the original.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 24 Oct. 2022

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