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Idioms  

1. Even, more so, as in Painting the room white will make it all the lighter , or They liked her all the better for not pretending , or You don't care for dessert? Good, all the more for us . Used to underscore a comparison, this idiom was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It (1:2): “All the better; we shall be the more marketable.” [Late 1500s] For a synonym, see so much the .

2. The entire amount of, as in These cousins were all the family he had . In this usage all the is short for all of the . [Ninth century a.d. ]

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Example Sentences

After all the changes to tariff rules last year, manufacturing in Vietnam instead of China saves about 1% of a product’s cost in tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Earlier this month, The New York Times’ Tanya Sichynsky dedicated an entire newsletter to the vegetable after a reader reached out, asking how they could use up all the cabbage they received from their local farmers’ market.

From Salon

In the years following WWII, DDT overtook pyrethrum as the most popular standalone insecticide, and it worked well at its task—killing insects and other arthropods by disrupting their nervous systems, all the while seemingly not hurting people.

From Slate

Throughout the play, she said, the audience would see "familiar faces from all the houses" and some new characters too.

From BBC

He added that all the Chinese tourists - including a 14-year-old child - had travelled independently.

From BBC