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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

all too en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Very, extremely; thoroughly but lamentably; excessively.
    • Sexism is all too familiar in this department.
    • It was over all too soon.
    • a robot will not be subject to all-too-human fits of anger, sadism or cruelty. 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
    • Teenage pregnancies are all too common in the UK.
    • They were all too ready to sell their stories to the press.
    • And you call me up again just to break me like a promise So casually cruel in the name of being honest I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here 'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well 2011, Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”:

Forms

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Coordinates

nice and · good and