all the while
idiom
: during the entire time
He claimed that he was happy, but he was thinking all the while of quitting his job.
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There, dysfunctional guests and hotel staff reveal new sides of themselves, all the while skewering insensitive tourists.
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Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 14 Feb. 2025
Atom and Claudine get to know each other gradually, piquing our curiosity all the while, but the film often skips around in time.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
The performers draw and write on a 4-by-4-foot wooden plank with charcoal; all the while, contact mics at each corner of the plank amplify the surface sounds on four correlating speakers in the Constellation space.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The officer was forced to run, and Silva chased him, all the while swinging the knife at him, according to the report.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
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Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 14 Feb. 2025
Atom and Claudine get to know each other gradually, piquing our curiosity all the while, but the film often skips around in time.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
The performers draw and write on a 4-by-4-foot wooden plank with charcoal; all the while, contact mics at each corner of the plank amplify the surface sounds on four correlating speakers in the Constellation space.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The officer was forced to run, and Silva chased him, all the while swinging the knife at him, according to the report.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
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“All the while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20the%20while. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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