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Discover LudwigThe phrase "all that simple" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression is "not that simple," which is used to indicate that something is more complicated than it appears.
Example: "I thought the project would be easy, but it turns out it's not all that simple."
Alternatives: "not so straightforward" or "more complex than that."
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So to me, it's all that simple.
But the reaction wasn't all that simple.
But Mr. Obama has signaled that the solution may not be all that simple.
But the suspicious-minded among us wonder whether it was all that simple.
And these activities are in any case not always all that simple to do.
Now I know that there are those who criticize me for seeing complexities, and I do, because some issues just aren't all that simple.
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The Jesuits did not want us to believe in church teachings on their word; they wanted us to arrive there by intellectual deduction, reason and -- failing all that -- simple faith.
And he does all that in simple words, in the right forum, at the right moment.
Clinics in poor countries, unable to do all that, used the simple W.H.O.
In particular, it seems conceptually possible that there are no simples at all, that every particular comprises yet simpler particular and that every universal is a conjunction of yet simpler universals.
For all that, the method remains simple.
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