as in everywhere
in every place or in all places
I've been looking high and low for my glasses
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Recent Examples of high and low
House Majority Leader Scott Odenbach, R-Spearfish, has a bill moving through the Legislature that would use the eight-year market average, throwing out the high and low numbers, to set taxable values for individual properties with a goal of moderating spikes in valuations and taxes.
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Meghan O'Brien, States Newsroom, 27 Feb. 2026
The whinny is an unusual combination of both high and low-pitched sounds — like a cross between a grunt and a squeal — that come out at the same time.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Hours later when the 36 skiers eventually finished, the final standings showed the impossible high and low of skiing.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 Feb. 2026
Sandoval, again taking leading-lady duties, plays Dahlia, a cop reporting to Bernal (Dennis Marasigan), a shady police chief with friends in both high and low places in Manila, a city still under martial law in 1979.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Feb. 2026
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Meghan O'Brien, States Newsroom, 27 Feb. 2026
The whinny is an unusual combination of both high and low-pitched sounds — like a cross between a grunt and a squeal — that come out at the same time.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Hours later when the 36 skiers eventually finished, the final standings showed the impossible high and low of skiing.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 Feb. 2026
Sandoval, again taking leading-lady duties, plays Dahlia, a cop reporting to Bernal (Dennis Marasigan), a shady police chief with friends in both high and low places in Manila, a city still under martial law in 1979.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high and low
Adverb
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This does seem like a way to claw back patriotism from its more exploitative uses, and even celebrate a nation that has become an amalgam of people from everywhere in the world.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
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Seats everywhere in the building are expensive.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 June 2026
Adverb
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All along, there was a small but mighty contingent of fans who would travel far and wide to watch their team play, at a time when the sport had little to no buy-in from mainstream Canadian culture.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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The bass is like Godzilla approaching, rumbling glasses of water hundreds of miles away and activating stank faces far and wide.—
Tatiana Lee Rodriguez,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
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“High and low.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20and%20low. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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