a good deal

idiom

: a lot : much
Things could be a good deal worse.

Examples of a good deal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To be sure, building this sort of scale can take a good deal of time. Trefis Team, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024 Challenges for the future Harvard’s Madras and other critics said a good deal about psilocybin and other psychedelics must be sorted before any could ever become a new treatment option for mental health. Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024 While there are still a lot of unknowns, one thing seems to be increasingly true: Getting COVID again and again is a good deal riskier than repeat hits of its seasonal counterparts. Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Sep. 2024 Nowhere is this deficit more evident than in the Pacific Islands region—an area that encompasses nearly a fifth of the world’s surface, through which the American military and a good deal of U.S. trade travel, and that is home to more than a dozen democratic states. Charles Edel, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for a good deal 

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“A good deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20good%20deal. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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