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What does if not mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word if not? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. used to link a semantically weaker word to a semantically stronger word following the adverb, both sharing the same basic meaning, indicating the increased likelihood of the former
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Kerry's whereabouts must be known and accounted for most, if not all, of that time.
And yet our curricula still reflect the priorities of the 1893 Committee of Ten, if not the shadows of the medieval trivium and quadrivium.
They passed the time of day, and chatted for a few minutes, as dozens, if not hundreds or more, students then went to their next classes.
I think I've made it abundantly clear over the years that I'm nothing if not a charitable guy.
But while his poetry can be overly abstruse, his literary criticism is accessibly sophisticated, if not uniformly engaging.
Good biopics struggle to present a truth, if not the truth, about their subjects.

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