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• The launch lineup for the PSVR 2 was, to put it mildly, meh.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 12 Aug. 2023
• The evening was, to put it mildly, a bit over the top, and some wondered if that was not the point.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Wolves’ matchups to start a possession are funky, to put it mildly.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• Fans on the internet were, to put it mildly, beshooketh.
  — Condé Nast, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2023
• To say that most of the output from these companies lacks spark is to put it mildly.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• This has caused, to put it mildly, no end of kerfuffle.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• Unlike most of the artists featured in this series, the Rolling Stones are pretty well known, to put it mildly.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Plan or no, tensions are, to put it mildly, running high.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2024
• The news about China’s economy over the past few weeks has been daunting, to put it mildly.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Before Biden stepped aside from the race last weekend, her poll numbers were not great, to put it mildly.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
• Things were not trending in a good direction, to put it mildly.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Grocery prices have, to put it mildly, become buck wild.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 20 June 2023
• The eighties were turbulent times in the lower hemisphere, to put it mildly.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Happy 50th anniversary to Neil Young’s On the Beach, an album that, to put it mildly, is not a very sunny one.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
• So when methadone starts taking off in the late 60s and early 70s, not everyone welcomes it, to put it mildly.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
• Parker has always been an avid reader—to put it mildly.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 8 May 2024
• And, as one tense scene demonstrates, not every client is respectful, to put it mildly.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
• Towns scored 62 points, but put forth one of his worst defensive efforts of the season and took some ill-advised — to put it mildly — shots in the second half.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2024
• In the context of reparations, the idea of cash payments has been controversial — to put it mildly.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Trump has not been handling all of the indictment talk well (to put it mildly), and his post on Truth Social was no different.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
• The reign of his successor, Immelt, was less successful, to put it mildly.
  — Cory Munchbach, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Some of the conservatives around MacArthur were rather disreputable, to put it mildly.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Kelly has been a strong voice for reproductive rights—again, Vance, to put it mildly, is not—and can speak about them in personal terms.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
• This is, to put it mildly, a fairly blunt comment for a Supreme Court justice to make about how litigants might see the court and its current lineup.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
• Advertisement The kidnapping plot is a bad one, to put it mildly; cruel as well as unwise.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Fast forward to today and the venture is shutting down, admitting that those claims had been incorrect—to put it mildly.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 25 June 2023
• The movie’s venture into that trauma is not for those who are sensitive to animals being harmed – and is not kid-friendly, to put it mildly.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
• While the choice may seem obvious now, the band decided to proceed with Other Voices, which is not held in the same esteem as their previous records (to put it mildly).
  — Jacob Linden, Redbook, 28 July 2023
• And the vast majority of civil servants are — to put it mildly — upset by this decision.
  — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• And there’s also no argument that in its current iteration, the program is, to put it mildly, very far from its original objectives.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024