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Treat or consider as very important; also, pay someone a lot of favorable attention. For example, Bill made much of the fact that he'd been to Europe three times, or Whenever Alice came home for a visit they made much of her. [c. 1300]

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However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
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Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
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Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.
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As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.
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Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
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Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.
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He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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