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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That’s an awful lot of patience and supervision before putting it out into the world.
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Paul Caputo, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
For a Democrat who kept an awful lot of distance from Kamala Harris before the election, Adams keeps repeating her mistake of seeking out safe spaces to simulate conversations that won’t push past his talking points rather than actually trusting his own ideas.
—Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
One of the other things for me is that maybe not an awful lot of people know this story, specifically internationally, about the Disappeared and Jean McConville.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
People Stream Back Toward Southern Lebanon By Paul Martin
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My very recent encounters with Hezbollah and with Lebanese army intelligence officers have taught me an awful lot about the interplay of Lebanon's men with guns—and what this may presage for the immediate future.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Paul Caputo, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
For a Democrat who kept an awful lot of distance from Kamala Harris before the election, Adams keeps repeating her mistake of seeking out safe spaces to simulate conversations that won’t push past his talking points rather than actually trusting his own ideas.
—Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
One of the other things for me is that maybe not an awful lot of people know this story, specifically internationally, about the Disappeared and Jean McConville.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
People Stream Back Toward Southern Lebanon By Paul Martin
0
My very recent encounters with Hezbollah and with Lebanese army intelligence officers have taught me an awful lot about the interplay of Lebanon's men with guns—and what this may presage for the immediate future.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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