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as in everywhere
in every place or in all places
I've looked all over—even outside—and I can't find my other shoe
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as in all
to a full extent or degree
his writing style is his mentor's all over
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as in underlying
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Recent Examples of allover
Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2022
Take, for example, the resurgence of the allover pattern room.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 25 May 2022
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2025
The celebration concluded with another set of battles, but this time on the turntables, with a selection of DJs from all over the world going face-to-face to earn a title of their own.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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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
Younger wealthy customers from all over the world have pushed the average age of a Lambo owner below 45.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2025
The celebration concluded with another set of battles, but this time on the turntables, with a selection of DJs from all over the world going face-to-face to earn a title of their own.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allover
Adverb
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Fortune 500 companies are leading the way with BI technology, but the democratization of data will soon be coming for companies everywhere.—
Glenn Mathis,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Since 2022, the number of films and TV shows made in the United States had dropped by about 40 percent, thanks to ballooning production costs at home, competition from overseas, and long-running labor disputes everywhere.—
Zoë Schiffer,
Wired News,
20 Aug. 2025
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Remnants of those influences are all around the country.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind have all outlined escalating levels of safety precautions—akin to the military’s DEFCON system—corresponding to more powerful AI models.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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And the underlying rationale there is that in any famine, starvation isn’t just people going without food.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Rolling Stone,
25 Aug. 2025
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The underlying profit fall from $654 million to $508 million did not prevent management from declaring a small increase in the half-year dividend, which was lifted from 13c to 13.4c.—
Tim Treadgold,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Tanner, who is quite religious, was doing the latter.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Most of the utensils were pretty cheap, quite worn, and really should have been tossed a long time ago—including my black plastic spatula.—
Mark Marino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Aug. 2025
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SpaceX is developing Starship to be a fully reusable transportation system, meaning both the rocket and vehicle can return to the ground for additional missions.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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The traffic wasn’t fully stopped in moments where the cameras weren’t rolling and pedestrians caught a glimpse of Spike Lee in his element.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Again, the superposed vector can be decomposed into its constituents.—
Anil Ananthaswamy,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2023
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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
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McBride is able to capture the often indistinguishable line between agony and pleasure, the way one can be known totally and known not at all from one moment to the next.—
Book Marks
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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That was just a totally different recording procedure.—
Pat Blashill,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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Each bite of this classic comfort food delivers taste and textural elements that perfectly compliment each other.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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The family restored it to its former glory and continue to display the historic motto on the walls - ‘No Pains, No Gains’, a motto Guigal declares epitomises the company’s ethos perfectly.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Allover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allover. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.
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