How to Use all-timer in a Sentence
all-timer
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That alone makes Khan an all-timer.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 12 June 2026
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Many of those are all-timers for anime.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2025
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War of the Worlds may truly be an all-timer, in a bad way.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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This stings less thanks to the healthy variety of all-timers currently in the field.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
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This was going to be an all-timer festival performance.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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If Idol makes the cut for a Rock Hall induction this year, his speech should be an all-timer.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
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Every World Series is memorable, but this was an all-timer.
—Levi Weaver, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
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We were served up an all-timer of a game at the Parc des Princes last week, and the second leg promises more of the same.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 5 May 2026
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And the baby boy, mother, father and MDA paramedic team live on to tell an all-timer.
—Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
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And as one of the most visible stages in music, there have been plenty of all-timer performances worth a rewatch, even decades later.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026
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So began another all-timer in OKC, as the Bruins slugged a game-tying long ball one out from defeat.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 June 2026
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And Seth Meyers’s Boston Accent–trailer sketch on Late Night is an all-timer.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
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Villainy, at the elite level, will not content itself with offensiveness alone; the all-timers, the boundary-pushers, bring fresh nuance to their antics.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
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Anderson shot all throughout the state, from Sacramento and Eureka to Borrego Springs, which is showcased in an all-timer car chase.
—Kristin Scharkey, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
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There are few filmmakers who haven’t had hills and valleys in their creative life, and quite frankly Almodóvar could coast on his many masterpieces, Oscars, and still be regarded as one of the all-timers.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 May 2026
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As President Whitmore, Bill Pullman gives an all-timer inspirational speech, hops in a fighter jet, and destroys invading aliens.
—Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
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Messi and Argentina arrive as reigning champions after besting France in the 2022 finale, an all-timer that went down to a penalty shootout.
—Kaya Kaynak, New York Times, 8 June 2026
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Lionel Messi is an all-timer (not to mention a frequent Atlanta United tormentor) and, at 39 years old, this may be his last World Cup.
—Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 13 July 2026
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The main event was an all-timer as fan-favorite Justin Gaethje forced previously unbeaten champion Ilia Topuria’s team to throw in the towel.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 June 2026
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The impressive turnout Saturday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood confirmed his status as a titan of comedy, an all-timer.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Apr. 2026
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Those cutaways to Jonathan to Robin to Max to Mike, those are just authentic reactions of Noah’s castmates and friends as their buddy gave a powerhouse performance in an all-timer of a scene.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Dec. 2025
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San Francisco’s John Lynch — an all-timer of a safety with Tampa Bay — was a front office virgin before taking that general manager gig in 2017.
—Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 7 Jan. 2026
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That's because across the room, an even bigger gaggle of reporters waited for freshman guard Braylon Mullins — the Indiana kid who hit an all-timer of a shot to send the Huskies back to the sport's biggest stage — to return for his own round of interviews.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
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Saturday night was an all-timer moment for the Oak Ridge High School of El Dorado Hills and Sacramento City College product.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
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Speak Daggers arrives October 17, via Escho, and features reggae all-timers the Congos and Copenhagen artists Erika de Casier and Fine.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025
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And still, less than a week after everyone went home talking about Game 3 as one of the greatest, longest contests ever, Game 7 of the 2025 World Series delivered an all-timer with epic scope.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
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And the score by Michael Abels (who collaborated with Jordan Peele on Get Out and Nope) is an all-timer, unsettling and steeped in dread to start and then frenetically nerve-shredding as things get hairier.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
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The vast majority of the episode is set in claustrophobic rooms, as O'Neill bounces between his ordeal with Ba'al and the tender moments with Jackson, and these intimate pairings really elevate 'Abyss' to all-timer status.
—Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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Few doubt the commercial appeal of pitting two of the sport’s all-timers against each other, and organisers Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) will be thrilled at the interest in its first MMA card.
—Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 15 May 2026
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This is a direct response to the all-timer of a bad take from Wim Wenders, film director and this year’s Berlinale jury president, who was asked about the genocide in Gaza and support for Israel by the German government, which is the festival’s funder, and if art can affect political change.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
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