all that

adverb

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

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This isn’t all that Le Creuset’s Valentine’s Day collection has to offer. Alicia Geigel, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Jan. 2025 Despite all that experience, we were still thrown for a loop by a recent demonstration of Doom running in the usually static confines of a PDF file. Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2025 Short-circuiting all that mental hardwiring typically requires a catastrophic individual mistake, a structural failure, or both. Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025 For three or four days, everybody put aside their political beliefs and who's on your lawn on a sign and all that nonsense. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 15 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 23 Jan. 2025.

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