all the more
idiom
: even more
The fact that they'd written the play themselves made it all the more impressive.
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The fine margins made the winter all the more important for teams to try to gain every thousandth of a second possible with their new car designs.
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Luke Smith, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
This room offers a confusing parting shot, one made all the more befuddling by its portal, a door whose wood has nearly been stripped of its varnish, possibly by decades of use.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Americans will increasingly have to move from their homes to avoid the climate crisis, whether that be sea-level rise, flooding, fires, hurricanes or droughts, and many Americans don't have the resources to just pack up and move, making the displacement all the more precarious.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
But that fact makes the failure to contain Ebola all the more glaring.
To be fair, all outbreak and pandemic responses are chaotic, especially when an entirely novel virus like Covid starts spreading.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Feb. 2025
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Luke Smith, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
This room offers a confusing parting shot, one made all the more befuddling by its portal, a door whose wood has nearly been stripped of its varnish, possibly by decades of use.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Americans will increasingly have to move from their homes to avoid the climate crisis, whether that be sea-level rise, flooding, fires, hurricanes or droughts, and many Americans don't have the resources to just pack up and move, making the displacement all the more precarious.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
But that fact makes the failure to contain Ebola all the more glaring.
To be fair, all outbreak and pandemic responses are chaotic, especially when an entirely novel virus like Covid starts spreading.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Feb. 2025
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“All the more.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20the%20more. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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