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• Chiet comes off as more than a little jaded about that change.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
• But things are more than a little different this time around.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023
• The dance floor is one of life’s great playgrounds, but for many of us, stepping onto it can take more than a little courage.
  — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• This year, the effort was more than a little rewarding.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 13 May 2022
• Back then, each story felt ominous, raw, and more than a little dystopian.
  — Nicole Acheampong, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2023
• Foghat cover bands!—it’s with more than a little chagrin.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 28 June 2022
• That said, the deal is more than a little bizarre from a business standpoint alone, right down to the fact that a court had to compel Mr. Musk to proceed with the acquisition.
  — WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• More likely than not, this bulge will lead to nothing more than a little bit more magma filling in the depths beneath South Sister.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• The pair were greeted with paparazzi mayhem, and with more than a little speculation that West had styled the curvy Fox to look just like his former wife.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2022
• For their part, residents near the Madison Suites are encouraged – and more than a little surprised.
  — oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2023
• The Swarm trailer introduces us to Dominique Fishback's Dre, a woman who's more than a little obsessed with the world's biggest pop star in 2016.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• The exception here is in the Vegas portion of the film, where the pace slows considerably alongside some scenes that feel, frankly, more than a little redundant.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• There’s a glimmer of landscape, and more than a little drama, to this depiction of time’s arrow on a loop-to-loop trajectory.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Securing the swathes of fabric to drape off her didn’t ring like a Coperni (or McQueen) knock-off, though inspiration is more than a little likely.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2023
• Expect more than a little pomp and circumstance when Elton John performs tonight at Petco Park.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• Lara Tennant, the three-time defending champion, will certainly be more than a little bit interested in the nuances of the course.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• That sounds minimalistic to a fault—and probably more than a little boring.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2022
• The relationship of Mercedes-Benz to a film that takes place in a fictional world of blue giants that spend much of their time swimming seems more than a little tenuous, however.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 13 Dec. 2022
• This seems to bear more than a little repeating, because people in positions of authority don’t always know the facts.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• There's more than a little O. Henry irony in the unspiraling that follows, as best intentions converge with bad luck and worse decisions.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• The resulting cinematic dreamscape feels suitably oneiric (a word that pops up in the movie itself), if also more than a little onanistic.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• When my children were younger, bedtime involved a chaotic dance between little ones and parents that resulted in more than a little frustration.
  — Bryan Stallings, Quartz, 9 Feb. 2023
• The standard Imaginary Advice experience tends to be think-y, a little destabilizing, and more than a little strange.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2022
• But Rufo has also not been forthright about his own educational background, which makes his current mission and status more than a little strange.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• Shea'na's Instagram account is private, but the 36-year-old event partnership director is more than a little impressive.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Feb. 2022
• This occasions more than a little awkward speechifying from her about their rival intentions.
  — Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
• Turns out, Mei triggered a magic spell that’s been passed down through female members of her family for generations, and which proves more than a little inconvenient in early-aughts Toronto.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022
• His cadences and defiant introspection owed more than a little to Tupac Shakur, just taken to operatic heights.
  — Brad Shoup, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2022
• Masked up and leaving us more than a little breathless, the actress is the cool, blue-haired beating heart amid the Hitchcockian thrills, giving the audience a rousing heroine as well as an immersive exploration of mental-health issues.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
• This woman’s situation is more than a little concerning.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2023