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not for a moment



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Idioms and Phrases

Never, not in the least, as in Not for a moment did I believe he was telling the truth . This expression employs moment in the sense of “the tiniest length of time,” a usage dating from the mid-1300s.
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Example Sentences

But the fact that they saw Assad as part of their strategy to contain and damage Iran until days before his fall indicates clearly that they did not for a moment believe him to be days away from a midnight flit to Russia.

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"We can ensure that we will not for a moment forget about the most important ones in this whole situation - the girls who should have been safe in their school, and that is why we are going through these processes and arrangements," it said.

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But Osaka, one of sport's most powerful voices on social issues, is also anxious to point out that new mothers should not for a moment compare themselves to her, only six months after childbirth.

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Lincoln warned lawyers that they should not "for a moment yield to the popular belief" and urged them "to be honest at all events."

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Finally, he said, with half a smile, “It is very easy for bankers when dealing cards not to see anything especially when in the company of friends in a country house; you do not for a moment suppose anyone would play unfairly.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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