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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For the first time ever, Murphy invites the public into his home to revisit his body of work, all the while revealing the interior life that has long driven — and grounded — him.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Norway, all the while, has pointed back towards the Palestinian FA’s proposal tabled at last year’s FIFA Congress calling for sanctions against Israel.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
From running errands to embarking on lengthy hikes, our testers logged 1,775,000 steps (approximately 739 miles) throughout the course of the test, documenting their experiences with photos and written feedback all the while.
—Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Cameron’s team built machines that were water jet propelled so that his actors could rocket through the water under the surface, come up and fly above the surface and then dive back in, all the while letting the technology drive the story and vice versa.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Norway, all the while, has pointed back towards the Palestinian FA’s proposal tabled at last year’s FIFA Congress calling for sanctions against Israel.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
From running errands to embarking on lengthy hikes, our testers logged 1,775,000 steps (approximately 739 miles) throughout the course of the test, documenting their experiences with photos and written feedback all the while.
—Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Cameron’s team built machines that were water jet propelled so that his actors could rocket through the water under the surface, come up and fly above the surface and then dive back in, all the while letting the technology drive the story and vice versa.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
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