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The phrase "as though not" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a hypothetical situation or to indicate that something is being considered as if it were not the case.
Example: "She acted as though not a single word had been spoken about the issue."
Alternatives: "as if it weren't" or "as though it didn't".
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Given the truth tables for the operators in Table 4, it is possible to take ∼ and ⊃ as primitive and to define as —though not as, as in ordinary PC; as ∼; and as.
Carefully she came, one step at a time, as though not wanting to disturb the proceedings.
When applying them gently, it felt as though not much was happening.
But 23 years later it seems as though not all that much has changed.
It was as though not merely the texts but the experience of reading itself was encrypted.
He replaced the receiver, softly as though not to disturb anyone at the other end.
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Toomer's mother "looked at me as-though-not-hearing-what I'd-said-to-her strange".
Carolinians were building a railroad that was as ambitious (though not as successful) as New York's Erie Canal.
The western jackdaw has been hunted as vermin, though not as heavily culled as other species of corvid.
The Mets' futility with Atlanta is just as dismal, though not as pronounced.
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