at most
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At the most; at a maximum or upper limit.
- There weren't so many people at the concert — 40 at most.
- To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.1664, Robert Boyle, chapter III, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part I, page 26:
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- He is at moſt a confuſed and wild Chriſtian, not ſpecialized by any form, but capable of all.1628, John Earle, Micro-Cosmography: Or, A Piece of the World Characterized, Salisbury: E. Easton, published 1786, page 121:
- The segment advises the reader matter-of-factly that “the penis [of a whale] should be tucked inside the body and when needed enlarged into an erection”. At the very least, the statement sounds odd. At most, it could make human penis owners consider that their equipment might not represent the highest evolutionary ideal.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 93:
- Synonyms
- at the outside
- Antonyms
- at least, at the least, at the very least
- Related terms
- at the latest