a whole lot

idiom

: very much
Things are looking a whole lot brighter now.

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Thankfully, the best summer dresses on Amazon make choosing an outfit a whole lot easier. Iman Balagam, Glamour, 5 June 2025 And of course they are joined by a whole lot of scariness. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025 To keep him would require a raise, and paying that much more for a fourth-liner, when fourth-liners are easily replaceable, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 31 May 2025 While Gemini on Android does favor on-device processing and Google’s privacy-preserving angle, none of this works without a whole lot of user data find its way into Google’s AI cloud. Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for a whole lot

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“A whole lot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20whole%20lot. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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