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all the while

[awl thuh wahyl, hwahyl]

idiom

  1. during this time; all along.

    She realized all the while that their plan would probably fail.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of all the while1

First recorded in 1350–1400
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Example Sentences

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All the while Markram was quietly going about his business, during an authoritative and measured knock offering barely a chance.

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All the while, musicians — some bandmates, others hired guns — filed in and out of four different studios, as he searched for perfection.

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All the while, he condemned the police and prosecutors.

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Kennedy, who attributes his heroin recovery to 12-step abstinence, made that clear in his 2024 documentary: “We’re going to build hundreds of healing farms” — places where people with addiction “learn the discipline of hard work” and “get re-parented,” all the while bringing “a new industry to these forgotten corners of America.”

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Opera production she began blandly only to be awakened by the raw meaning of love, singing very prettily all the while.

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all the wayAll the world's a stage