all that

adverb

: to an indicated or suggested extent or degree : so
didn't take his threats all that seriously

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Furthermore, all that kit and its deployment can’t be cheap and someone has to pay for it, cue the taxpayer. Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 No doubt, however, that the love for Danny Boyle’s zombie horror franchise has lasted all that time, as proven by the noise around the premiere of the third instalment, and the first since 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 June 2025 And all that while the team itself, no matter its global prominence, was a relative mom-and-pop shop until this week’s record-breaking, $10 billion sale to Los Angeles Dodgers majority owner Mark Walter. How will the Lakers look in the coming years? James Jackson, New York Times, 20 June 2025 But as entertaining as all that was, that wasn’t the moment that lifted my spirits. Wayne Chan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for all that

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of all that was in 1945

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“All that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20that. Accessed 25 Jun. 2025.

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