"at the most" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

  1. Alternative form of at most. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: at most
    Sense id: en-at_the_most-en-prep_phrase-fWNd2wnJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "If I had been asked what was the rent of the house, I should have said, at the most, not more than twenty pounds, — because, between you and me, it wants a good bit of doing up, and is hardly fit to live in as it stands.",
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          "text": "[Y]ou didn't need a jailor, she contended, for a domesticated lamb tied up with pink ribbon. This was not an animal to be controlled—it was an animal to be, at the most, educated. She admitted accordingly that she was educative—which Maggie was so aware that she herself, inevitably, wasn't; so it came round to being true that what she was most in charge of was his mere intelligence.",
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