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adjective

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Recent Examples of allover
Adverb
Its door has a high-arched frame and a decorative allover circular pattern made from plastic. Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2022 Take, for example, the resurgence of the allover pattern room. Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 25 May 2022
Adjective
Companies like Rental Family exist all over Japan, and depending on what’s desired by the client, the actor’s duties can range from therapist to escort to straight-up con man. Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025 The reason why jobs are going down in manufacturing and mining and all over is tariffs. ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for allover
Recent Examples of Synonyms for allover
Adverb
  • So, whether you’re headed to Italy or just running errands closer to home, Seyfried’s sneakers are proof that one good pair can carry you everywhere.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There’s just utility workers and government workers everywhere.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But, like Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar and Israel have all acquired talent through naturalisation, in particular east African distance runners.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Ashlee Simpson slayed in an all-black look featuring a cutout top and frayed asymmetrical hem.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The decision drew criticism from IU faculty, students and free-speech advocates, as many speculate that Halaby's pro-Palestinian views were the underlying reason.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
  • For example, our Network Operations Center and Finance teams now draw from the same underlying dataset to serve very different business needs.
    Fletcher Keister, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The silk faille jacket was not quite white but a pale blush, and the loose pants and top beneath had an intricate pattern of silver beads.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • To my surprise, the burger was quite good; a gooey mesh of meat and cheese became one flesh.
    Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • What began as a quick bite to hold me over until dinner turned into a fully fledged feast of lemon tagliolini with swordfish ragu, maccheroncini cacio e pepe with citrus, and paccheri pasta with tomatoes, burrata, and basil.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • By Saturday evening, the fire has been fully contained.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Again, the superposed vector can be decomposed into its constituents.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Like entanglement, the superposed states essential to its power are fragile, collapsing when measured or otherwise perturbed by the outside world.
    Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 3 June 2021
Adverb
  • This is when a bone gets knocked out of its joint either partially or completely.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lecornu will now have to steer a budget through France’s completely fractured parliament, macro strategists at Deutsche Bank flagged Wednesday.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • More Bryan Bennett/Getty Images Josh Allen went off in the fourth quarter to drive the Bills to victory against a true AFC contender, though the effort wasn't totally perfect.
    Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The evidence of what happened during the COVID times, in my view, [is that] there’s a lot of public accountability on the central banks—not just in the United States but everywhere—and that’s totally fine.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Allover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allover. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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