all the
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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 .
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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. ]
Example Sentences
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The company has offered to pay $5.5 billion to cover some 76,000 claims, nearly all the remaining cases in federal multi-district litigation and related cases in state courts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
And 10 days earlier, the program moved into its new, state-of-the-art football facility, with all the amenities anyone could ask for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Gray said the Scottish government was investing £1.7bn for policing this year and that police had all the resources they needed to respond to the incident and other major events.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
It would simply require the punishment to answer to the crime, which is all the Eighth Amendment has ever asked of anyone.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
From the employee side of the window, the outside world looked fluid, all the people on the other side wavy, like an impressionist watercolor.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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