all along

adverb

: all the time
knew the truth all along

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Bochner explained that, in fact, painting had been his object of investigation all along. Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025 Cliffhanger! Stray shots Sooooo LaRoche has been a good guy all along, right? Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2025 And why is De Bruyne being deployed on the right flank as a poor man’s Beckham when the real one was there all along? Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025 As the producers put it, Becky became the person she was meant to be all along. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for all along

Word History

First Known Use

1619, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of all along was in 1619

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“All along.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20along. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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all along

adverb
: all the time
knew the truth all along

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