a great deal

idiom

: much : a lot
Things could be a great deal worse.

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The 5 Best Travel Adapters and Converters, Tested and Reviewed Love a great deal? Séamus Bellamy, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2025 There is a great deal of uncertainty—not only over the pace AI will advance, but to what degree governments will be willing to engage. Harry Booth / Paris, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025 Such ratifications would win Washington a great deal of goodwill in the global South—and undermine Beijing. Jorge G. CastaÑeda, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2025 In 1917, Mahler-Werfel met a man who interested her a great deal more: the twenty-seven-year-old Franz Werfel, noted for poems of flamboyant Expressionist character. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for a great deal 

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“A great deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20great%20deal. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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