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the whole time

ADJECTIVE

throughout

Synonyms

WEAK

all over all the time all through around at full length completely during every bit everyplace everywhere far and near far and wide for the duration from beginning to end from end to end from one end to the other from start to finish from the start from the word go high and low in all respects in every place in everything inside and out on all accounts over overall right through round through the whole of to the end up and down

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 course of in the interim in the meanwhile in the middle of in the time of meanwhile mid midst over pending the time between throughout until when while

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I was conscious the whole time but I can't remember much after it went off.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The NEH, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, have been in the thick of it the whole time.

From Salon • May 11, 2026

So as he built a career and then a company, Brockman kept a journal the whole time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

He would tell you he’s been beating them the whole time, coming from where he started to where he is now, a billionaire basketball player-slash-businessman, he’s scored more points than anyone, ever.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

He spends every summer at his cottage in Nantucket, and this year Andre landed the sweet gig of supervising his spoiled cat for fifty dollars a day the whole time he’s away.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

the whole time

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