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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Annie Blackman, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
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Lori dove into motherhood and raising her triplets, all the while campaigning for highway safety to help protect other children.
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The suspect allegedly attempted to acquire a gun from an undercover FBI agent a day after Christmas, all the while talking about planning an attack, according to the court document.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2026
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Annie Blackman, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
The show trades the Middle Eastern backdrop of the first season for a South American one, and Pine has to use all his charm and improvisation to get out of a series of increasingly dangerous pickles, all the while worrying that British Security Services might be involved in all the evildoing.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
Lori dove into motherhood and raising her triplets, all the while campaigning for highway safety to help protect other children.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
The suspect allegedly attempted to acquire a gun from an undercover FBI agent a day after Christmas, all the while talking about planning an attack, according to the court document.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2026
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“All the while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20the%20while. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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