the lot

noun

: all the things of a group
They sell tuxedos, business suits, casual wear …the lot.
This one's the best of the lot.

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At one point, video appears to show the shop’s front doors lock the robbers inside, before one of them fires off several shots through the glass, allowing the group to escape to getaway cars parked in the lot’s valet area. Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025 Fortune and Henning purchased the lot for Bronzeville Way in 2016 as one of their first investment properties. Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025 Softer car sales tend to encourage automakers to offer lower promotional rates on some makes and models to move cars and trucks off the lot. Susan Tompor, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025 In fact, Walt Disney himself famously tapped one of the lot’s union nurses, Hazel George, to tend to him personally after a neck injury sustained in a polo accident. Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the lot

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“The lot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20lot. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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