as in throughout
in the course of we wrote notes during the boring lecture

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Recent Examples of during Save 35% during the Prime Big Deals sale and boost productivity for less. Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025 There’s plenty of risk with Porter, as his early career was mired with offseason incidents that eventually led him to playing in Greece during the 2024 season. Stan Son, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 The center of Priscilla is forecast to move parallel to, but offshore of, the coast of west-central Mexico and Baja California Sur during the next couple of days. Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025 Oceanco also grabbed headlines by signing a contract with Lloyd’s Register during the show for the classification and certification of a 427-foot yacht, which will be the largest ever built the Dutch shipyard. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for during
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  • Checkmate has done lots of covert ops spy nonsense in comics throughout the years, and notable works with Batman on occasion.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The future of Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders has been a major talking point throughout the first five weeks of the 2025 NFL season.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • Under the agreement, accepted by both parties this week, Hamas will return all living hostages—believed to be around 20—in exchange for roughly 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and about 1,700 detainees from Gaza.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Hidalgo-Monroy Wohlgemuth discusses the impact of Fair Trade and organic agriculture on rural development in Chiapas, Mexico, emphasizing social empowerment, particularly for women, and the challenges posed by neoliberal policies such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025

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“During.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/during. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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