How to Use to say nothing of in a Sentence
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Better to say nothing of note and leave himself a little wriggle room.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
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That’s to say nothing of the stage, which offers a raw immediacy that books and films lack.
—Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
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Powerbrokers tend to come with big egos, to say nothing of their political influence.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 July 2026
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That’s to say nothing of their current young shortstop, Colson Montgomery, who is a bona fide great player.
—The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 24 July 2026
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That’s to say nothing of his scene-stealing part as the blind man in Young Frankenstein (1974).
—Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Aug. 2026
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This is to say nothing of Kuminga’s playstyle or decision-making reputation.
—Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
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This is to say nothing of all the work that went into Blingy’s title track, which was only briefly teased at KCON.
—Abby Webster, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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The front line alone is roughly eight hundred miles long, to say nothing of the potential targets dotted across Russia’s enormous landmass.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
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And that’s to say nothing of the very real threats to free expression coming from Republicans at every level of government right now.
—Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
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That’s more charting efforts than some successful musical acts will manage throughout their entire careers, to say nothing of keeping them on the tally for years.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
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And yet the company's earnings garners scant attention compared to those names, to say nothing of Nvidia, which smashed expectations last week.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
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For one thing, the regulatory environment is much more demanding, as outlined above, to say nothing of the fact that all the low-hanging fruit has been picked from the vine decades ago.
—Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 9 Sep. 2026
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And that’s to say nothing of other hyperscale AI data center issues including heat, noise pollution, e-waste and more.
—Jorge Aguilar, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2026
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One reason Sturm sat Hagens in the playoffs was that the defensive ask of handling, to say nothing of learning, the Bruins’ hybrid zone system was too much.
—Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
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Yet a rupture with the United States, doomed to a long night of Trumpism, seems unlikely, to say nothing of a future of European self-reliance.
—Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
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This is to say nothing of the multitudes of amazing nonfiction deposited on our shelves this week, such as work by Ben Macintyre, Naomi Klein, and more.
—Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
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But Janney’s work, to say nothing of her perennially underrated co-star Andrew Rannells, was certainly worthy.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
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But the bigger issue is that Tenzing keeps its title character and his closest ally (to say nothing of all the smaller characters around them) at a reverent distance, rendering them in broad strokes rather than fine shading.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
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Stones chose the No 6, as worn by Armando Picchi and Giacinto Facchetti, to say nothing of Youri Djorkaeff.
—James Horncastle, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
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One in which, even amid an affordability crisis experienced by millions and millions worldwide, headlines are made by the billions and billions being invested in sectors such as AI, to say nothing of media, sport and entertainment.
—James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 July 2026
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His favoritism toward North Korea could destabilize the region and encourage South Korea and Japan—to say nothing of Iran and other rogue states—to pursue nuclear-weapons programs.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2026
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But now, being competitive on the court isn’t enough to dominate the headlines; not with Steph and Dray and Harden and Kyrie still kicking—to say nothing of the NBA’s all-time leading scorer in both points and memes.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 8 July 2026
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The tone here is mellower, the pitch less heightened than in Leigh’s more volatile domestic tragicomedies, like Secrets & Lies and Life Is Sweet, to say nothing of the bludgeoning All or Nothing.
—Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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YouTube’s Steve Chen, Peter Thiel, Snap’s Evan Spiegel, Elon Musk…to say nothing of Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates before them.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 July 2026
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All the guy did last season was shoot 3s at a higher percentage than Steph Curry and maintain a higher A/TO ratio than Jamal Murray, Derrick White and Jalen Brunson, to say nothing of his Off-Night defense.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
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