an awful lot
idiom
informal
1
: a large amount
They lost an awful lot of money.
She does an awful lot of talking.
2
: very much
I like him an awful lot.
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According to the sages of Wall Street, the legacy cable/satellite/telco-TV bundle is as dead as the Diplodocus, although there are still an awful lot of customers banging around in that null set.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Holloway, who carries a $1,500 bounty for murdering her husband, looks an awful lot like Sara Rowell.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
That’s an almost impossible to believe nine assists in 406 minutes for someone who has the ball in their hands an awful lot.
—Sam Vecenie, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
That sure sounds an awful lot like exactly how the DCEU started in the first place, including the attempt to jump ahead to a pre-existing universe without doing the setup.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Holloway, who carries a $1,500 bounty for murdering her husband, looks an awful lot like Sara Rowell.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
That’s an almost impossible to believe nine assists in 406 minutes for someone who has the ball in their hands an awful lot.
—Sam Vecenie, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
That sure sounds an awful lot like exactly how the DCEU started in the first place, including the attempt to jump ahead to a pre-existing universe without doing the setup.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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“An awful lot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/an%20awful%20lot. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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