How to Use not really in a Sentence

not really

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• But that’s not really what the plot is about.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
• So, there’s not really much else to say about it.
  — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• Well, that’s not really been the case at all.
  — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• That’s not really my cup of tea.
  — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
• Of course, that’s not really true at all.
  — Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
• But he’s not really known for it.
  — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 22 Mar. 2026
• That is not really the point, though.
  — Moira Forbes, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Our show’s not really like that.
  — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• There’s not really much phone stuff.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025
• So at the end of the day the savings is not really that much.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
• Most people can say those words and not really mean them.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025
• None of the Clyburns need to — not really.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
• But that’s not really playing by the rules of the text.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
• That's not really how things are supposed to be done.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• That’s not really the way our work should be being used.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
• But that’s not really my main focus right now.
  — Jon Conahan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
• That’s lowkey some s—t white people say, and that’s not really us.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
• The answer is not really — or, at least, not yet.
  — Morgan Lee, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
• And not really try to think too much about the swing or the results or things like that.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
• Hers were not crimes of passion, not really.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
• The two were friendly, but not really friends.
  — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
• But the things that have to be done to it are not really exotic.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 21 July 2026
• One of them perhaps but not really.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
• But the debate in that title song is not really a fair fight.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
• To say that one is better than the other is not really right.
  — Gayle King, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• So much of the book is not really even about Newsom.
  — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
• That’s not really the case with Clint and Greg.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
• Weighing in on who’s fit or not for office is not really my lane.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
• Of course, in Iran, this may not really come out as funny.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
• But Young has not really impressed fans with his play so far.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025