all that
adverb
: to an indicated or suggested extent or degree : so
didn't take his threats all that seriously
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Filmmaker Salvador Litvak hopes to change all that with his neo-Western thriller, Guns & Moses (in theaters everywhere this Friday; click here for tickets).
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Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Not your material gain, your career, all that; that’s an empty road.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Some have been incarcerated for thirty years or more and have been reading books all that time.
—Brooke Allen, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
And for some of these diseases that provide long-term or lifelong immunity after exposure, a single titer is all that is needed to know if protection is still intact.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 July 2025
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Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Not your material gain, your career, all that; that’s an empty road.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Some have been incarcerated for thirty years or more and have been reading books all that time.
—Brooke Allen, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
And for some of these diseases that provide long-term or lifelong immunity after exposure, a single titer is all that is needed to know if protection is still intact.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 July 2025
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“All that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20that. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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