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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No, not that Portishead — the English village of Portishead, a little town in the idyllic countryside of Somerset, where Grammer purchased a 200-year-old cottage in 2023.
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Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2025
Inevitably, Selhurst Park is not that close to Crystal Palace itself — an area of London named after a palace built for the Great Exhibition in the 1850s.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Given how well these teams both defend the paint (not that either one is easy to score on from outside, either), who cuts down the nets will probably come down to which team shoots it better from deep.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Pecking Disorder For the first half of the 20th century, neuroanatomists assumed that birds were simply not that smart.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
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Bridget Read, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2025
Inevitably, Selhurst Park is not that close to Crystal Palace itself — an area of London named after a palace built for the Great Exhibition in the 1850s.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Given how well these teams both defend the paint (not that either one is easy to score on from outside, either), who cuts down the nets will probably come down to which team shoots it better from deep.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Pecking Disorder For the first half of the 20th century, neuroanatomists assumed that birds were simply not that smart.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Not that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20that. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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