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all right.
Contemporary Examples

Like, “Yeah this will be crazy to rhyme on alright lets loop it up.”
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alright, if it gets too much let me know and we will take a break.
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The band played “Everything Will Be alright,” “Mr. Brightside,” and “Smile Like You Mean It.”
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The weather forecast was supposed to be alright but it seems to be getting worse.
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As usual, the company will likely have enough takers to do alright.
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Historical Examples

He then turned abruptly to the slave and growled, ‘alright, where is that hog you stoled.’
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States Work Projects Administration

alright, Mr. Stewart, how did you find your cow, with some new kind of radar?
The Shining Cow Alex James

A dandy horse, alright, but too high-lived for Cavalry work, and they can’t break him in to it.
The Long Dim Trail Forrestine C. Hooker

“Oh, we’ll fix him alright in just about a minute,” responded the strange voice.
Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White

This time ’twas alright: this was a kept one for strangers, an’ I had it all to myself.
The Doctor’s Daughter “Vera”

adverb, sentence substitute, adjective
a variant spelling of all right

frequent spelling of all right, attested from 1893.

There are no such forms as all-right, or allright, or alright, though even the last, if seldom allowed by the compositors to appear in print, is often seen … in MS. [Fowler]