a whole lot

idiom

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

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Eden Vale, Washington, is the sort of solidly middle-class, carefully diverse, generally happy small town that probably only really exists in TV shows but tends to drive a whole lot of them, from Gilmore Girls to Schitt’s Creek to Resident Alien. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025 And if the latter is true, then there are a whole lot of things few parents are prepared to tell their adolescent children that Marielle is now privy to. Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025 Price gouging ‘scared a whole lot of tourists away’ Ahead of the Games, prices for hotels and Airbnbs skyrocketed with the expectation that tourists would be willing to shell out for lodging. Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2025 There were some less-than-serious efforts the likes of which have been seen in past years — underhand lobs from half-court, for example, and a whole lot of interjection from on-court emcee Kevin Hart — but there was at least some defense played. Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 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 5 Mar. 2025.

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