in the course of

PREPOSITION

during

Synonyms

WEAK

all along all the while amid as at the same time as at the time for the time being in the interim in the meanwhile in the middle of in the time of meanwhile mid midst over pending the time between the whole time throughout until when while

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What did you discover in the course of making the show?

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"It also recognises colleagues injured and killed in the course of doing their job."

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Out of a 27-song setlist, these remarks appear four times in the course of the 2 ½ hours the band is onstage.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

What choices Nadia Marcinko had, if any, in the course of her long association with Jeffrey Epstein, it is impossible for an outsider to know.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

in the course of

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