not (in) the least
idiom
: not at all : not in any way or respect
It did not interest me in the least.
That joke was not in the least funny.
I'm not the least worried.
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But the Tigers also made wise offseason moves, not the least of which was signing former New York Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres to a one-year, $15 million contract.
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Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The policy shift has been blamed for myriad problems for the agency that oversees more than 200 million acres of federal land, not the least of which is a decline in biodiversity and a rise in catastrophic wildfires across the West.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Meanwhile, for those who missed it, baseball’s All-Star Game turned out to be a pretty good show this week, not the least because the players were again allowed to wear their regular team uniforms, instead of the clown suits they’d been forced to don the last four years.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
Brendan Yates says he’s learned innumerable things fronting his band Turnstile over the last decade and a half, not the least of which is that an ambitious musician needn’t move to Los Angeles or New York to make it.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
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Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The policy shift has been blamed for myriad problems for the agency that oversees more than 200 million acres of federal land, not the least of which is a decline in biodiversity and a rise in catastrophic wildfires across the West.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Meanwhile, for those who missed it, baseball’s All-Star Game turned out to be a pretty good show this week, not the least because the players were again allowed to wear their regular team uniforms, instead of the clown suits they’d been forced to don the last four years.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
Brendan Yates says he’s learned innumerable things fronting his band Turnstile over the last decade and a half, not the least of which is that an ambitious musician needn’t move to Los Angeles or New York to make it.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
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“Not (in) the least.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20%28in%29%20the%20least. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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