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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

Example Sentences

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"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

One of the greatest scoops in the course of human events appeared in a German-language newspaper in Philadelphia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

She didn’t make many stops in the course of a day.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

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