If not
If not adverb - Perhaps; indicating possibility of being more remarkable (greater or better or sooner) than.
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Synonyms for If not
Saving and if not are semantically related. in other than topic. In some cases you can use "Saving" instead the phrase "If not" as a conjunction or a preposition, when it comes to topics like except that.
Saving
Saving conjunction - If it were not for the fact that.
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Synonyms for Saving
If not and saving are semantically related. You can use "If not" instead the word "Saving" as a conjunction or a preposition.
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Both terms in one sentence
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Improbable Age: Each trilogy focuses on a character in their early teens saving, if not always the world, then at least their home city.
Source: Literature / The Edge Chronicles -
Even after she becomes human, she is just as, if not more, focused on exploring as she is on kissing Eric and saving her own life.
Source: Disney / The Little Mermaid -
He's nearly killed when his half-siblings drop a flowerpot on his head and likely would have bled out if not for a magician from the Tower finding and saving him.
Source: Webcomic / Black Haze
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