an awful lot
idiom
informal
1
: a large amount
They lost an awful lot of money.
She does an awful lot of talking.
2
: very much
I like him an awful lot.
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Josh Yohe, New York Times, 27 June 2025
That’s an awful lot of San Diegans winning an awful lot of major championships.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025
And some fossils from Taiwan and northern China have molars that look an awful lot like those in that Tibetan jawbone.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
After the game, when referee talk dominated the public discourse, this play drew an awful lot of attention on social media.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for an awful lot
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