not

as in never
in no way or under no circumstances The food was so burnt that it was not edible.

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Adverb
  • Right now, there’s a broad consensus that the global populist right understands our almost post-literate new media in a way their opponents never will.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • God never sanctions cruelty; love that harms is not love at all.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Rollins rarely shoots when dribbling around a screen.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The bill expands on a 2023 law, which police found too restrictive and used rarely.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • Most doctors, nurses, and parents of critically ill children will seldom, if ever, bring poetry into their space of crisis.
    K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The fraud that James supposedly committed is seldom prosecuted as a standalone offense.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Not.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/not. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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