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at least

adverb

  1. at minimum or lower limit
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Wiktionary

prep_phrase

Etymology: From Middle English at leste, from Old English æt lǣstan.

  1. At a minimum or lower limit.

    “I couldn't count them all, but I think there must have been at least 500 people in attendance.”

    “So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob [Cratchit], the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his thread-bare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.”

  2. In any event; anyway.

    “You could even be discovered, become a movie star, or at least see one.”