a lo sumo

a lo sumo

at most, at the most

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= at best, at most, at the most

Ex. Facet analysis in UDC is, at best, inconsistent.

Ex. The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.

Ex. The chemical systems described must be based on a small number of elements and composed of molecules having 8 atoms at the most.

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= at best, at most, at the most

Ex: Facet analysis in UDC is, at best, inconsistent.

Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.

Ex: The chemical systems described must be based on a small number of elements and composed of molecules having 8 atoms at the most.