all that

adverb

: to an indicated or suggested extent or degree : so
didn't take his threats all that seriously

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Her book will thoroughly inform those affected by the disease, touching on all that happens before a child is born with sickle cell and extending all the way to finding — or conceiving — a bone marrow donor. Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025 Rather, Nafisi is rejecting the revolutionaries’ tendency to treat all that surrounds them as a field of symbols. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025 Except, Zhu doesn’t do anything all that interesting with this interrogation, other than briefly hinting at and abandoning it. Tomris Laffly, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025 Perhaps, but Quinn hasn’t allowed his players to discuss that, because the Eagles await on Sunday, and that’s all that matters. Mike Jones, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for all that 

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of all that was in 1945

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“All that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20that. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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