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at the (very) least

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• Or at the very least, not let good bagels get in the way of good policy?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
• That’s what a medical pedicure achieves—at the very least.
  — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
• Freedom is among the central tenets of American life or, at the very least, of our marketing strategy.
  — Anna Kaufman, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Nov. 2024
• Even if China does not abandon its gray-zone playbook, such steps would, at the very least, better prepare Taiwan for a conflict that such coercion has made all the more likely.
  — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
• As far as parroting Putin: To the hawks in think tanks and the media, any talk that doesn't involve escalating (or at the very least, maintaining) war is un-American.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Locke, now 20, achieved, at the very least, part of that dream.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
• Or at the very least, not broadcast to the whole world.
  — Byron Tau, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
• Or, at the very least, to get their side of the story told.
  — Morty Matz, New York Daily News, 21 July 2024
• The show needs more jokes and less earnest emoting, at the very least.
  — TIME, 9 Oct. 2023
• And at the very least, there are no knobs or dials to break.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2021
• Or at the very least the hottest version of themselves.
  — L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 24 July 2024
• But at the very least, the market appears to have found a floor.
  — Grant Smith, Fortune, 16 July 2023
• So the court will see to it that elections are held next year at the very least.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Or, at the least, living through some very strange and scary times.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
• Or at the very least, put your feet up and relax for a bit to give your body a break.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 10 Oct. 2024
• Drake, for at the very least since the turn of the decade, is far more a popstar than anything else.
  — Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
• Others appear to be at the very least safe, and may be worth a shot.
  — Markham Heid, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
• Still others gripe that the Army should never have closed the post or, at the very least, should’ve held onto the land.
  — Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• Or, at the very least, they were forced to face down heat exhaustion while the men on set had a bit more help.
  — Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2020
• To do so was to risk almost certain death or, at the least, scorn from our neighbors.
  — David Holloway, al, 6 Sep. 2023
• Does the network even have a release date, or, at the very least, a production start date?
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 June 2024
• Nix, at the very least, hasn’t thrown an interception in his last two games.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
• Read on to learn more about overbooking and how to avoid it (or, at the very least, benefit from it).
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
• But, at the very least, the newcomer shows support vessels can bring their own dose of style to the water.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
• Or, at the very least, inspire you to replace some of your coffee intake with a nice, herbal tea.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
• Can the drone shot be benevolent, or, at the very least, objective?
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• But at the least the economy’s resilience suggests that the Fed won’t be cutting rates soon.
  — WSJ, 6 Sep. 2023
• But a leaf blower can make the task somewhat fun—or, at the very least, much quicker than using a rake.
  — Brandon Russell, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
• The rapper, whose debut LP Montero dropped in 2021, confirmed that there is, at the very least, a single on the way.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2023
• And at the very least, tell those notifications to shut it.
  — Cathryne Keller, SELF, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024