a great deal

idiom

: much : a lot
Things could be a great deal worse.

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Dark Renaissance will teach you a great deal about Marlowe’s brilliance and the Elizabethan era—its theater, the aristocracy, the spy craft, and the finer points of drawing and quartering religious dissidents. Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025 The petulant, back-stabby intrigue between various parties here sometimes makes the hero rather unsympathetic, with photogenic singer-actor Pena Hernandez’s puppyish turn not conveying a great deal of complexity, let alone artistic o intellectual potential. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025 There’s no denying that H&M Foundation has done a great deal of good. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 31 Oct. 2025 The Empire of Corpses is a wild ride, an entertaining and expansive piece of imagination that has a great deal of fun combining characters from classic film and literary sources. Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for a great deal

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“A great deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20great%20deal. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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