a whole lot

idiom

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

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Kamala Harris' presidential campaign is getting a whole lot more musical. Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024 By most conventional measures, Election Day went smoothly in Orange County and beyond, but that didn’t do a whole lot to ease worried minds. Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024 One of the things that’s really nice about it is that the new version is not a whole lot more complicated than Ikea furniture. Jorge Just, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024 But regarding women’s reproductive health in our country, beyond a shadow of a doubt, things have changed, and if this election goes the wrong way, things could rapidly get a whole lot worse. Krista Vernoff, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024 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 21 Nov. 2024.

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