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- (adverb): With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
- (adverb): With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.
- It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
- I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.