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Discover Ludwig"saw not a" is not correct or commonly used in written English.
The correct word order would be "did not see a." Example: He did not see a single cloud in the sky.
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In the streets of the city, he saw not a single cat or dog.
Where repression was unsuccessful, Freud saw not a cause for celebration but rather misery and disease.
While the baths are not formally nude-only, I saw not a stitch of clothing on my dozen or so fellow bathers.
And yes, he is a moneybags collector who saw not a football club but a trinket that gave him a pass to the upper echelons of the game.
Both the American and the Dutch governments saw not a sensible anticipation of a threat, but a threat in its own right.
On a warm, clear Sunday afternoon, many New Yorkers looked up and saw not a cloud in the sky — except for the ones that were talking to them.
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I see not a one".
See: not a big labyrinth, but a little one.
— Susan Edgerley The New Yorker: It was an eggplant, see, not a pineapple.
I look at the blue and see not a sea but a postcard, paper thin.
We look in the mirror and see not a generic person but a very specific one.
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