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
With no
If not and with no are semantically related. You can use "If not" instead a conjunction phrase "With no".
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Probably wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact time has no meaning in that dimension so those people have been stuck there for thousands of years with no change at all (still has an inn though).
Source: Endless Corridor -
This being a billion or so people (not counting the collateral deaths) with no plausible explanation, you'd probably be terrified, shell-shocked, if not suicidal.
Source: Angst? What Angst? -
If not then they should be used as suicide bombers to take out enemies even though the originals could do the same job with no risk to themselves.
Source: Family-Unfriendly Aesop
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