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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Recent Examples on the Web That’s not a very good reason—not that Carol’s reasons for lying were good, either. Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 The real danger of a second Trump term is not that Trump is a man in decline. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024 Some of us are old enough to remember the advent of PowerPoint not that many years ago. John Werner, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 Because usually the differences between a cancer cell and a normal cell are not that many and not that big. quantamagazine.org, 15 Oct. 2024 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 31 Oct. 2024.

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