more to the point
idiom
: more importantly
If you drive while drunk, you could lose your license, but even more to the point, you could kill someone.
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Leibovitz argued that ads like that need to be tougher and more to the point.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 Feb. 2026
But more to the point, no one’s going to make an eight-hour streaming series (ending in a cliffhanger) about an actually safe town.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
The Westerner, with eyes narrowed and speech slowed by a drawl, has become a venerated figure to people far removed from the species’ native habitat, the American range of yesterday that today doesn’t exist and, more to the point, save for artistic revisionist accounts, never did.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
The little shop’s name comes from the quartermaster character, Q, who provides the gadgets and, more to the point, Aston Martin cars for James Bond in the famous movies.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 Feb. 2026
But more to the point, no one’s going to make an eight-hour streaming series (ending in a cliffhanger) about an actually safe town.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
The Westerner, with eyes narrowed and speech slowed by a drawl, has become a venerated figure to people far removed from the species’ native habitat, the American range of yesterday that today doesn’t exist and, more to the point, save for artistic revisionist accounts, never did.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
The little shop’s name comes from the quartermaster character, Q, who provides the gadgets and, more to the point, Aston Martin cars for James Bond in the famous movies.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
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“More to the point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20to%20the%20point. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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