all over
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Lorraine, from Burnage, south Manchester, was eventually diagnosed with degenerative disc disease, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia - a condition which causes all-over body pain and extreme tiredness.
From BBC • May 11, 2022
It's the perfect, just-set icing on top of pastries, cookies, and cakes at your favorite bakeries — perhaps most identified as the all-over glaze atop petit fours.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2021
Rather than the all-over, canvas-filling brush strokes favored by other abstract painters, Mitchell’s works were looser, gathered away from the edges.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021
“We wanted to focus on classic characters like Elmo and the Count and do an edgier all-over print.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2019
Jumping around my room in an all-over IBS wiggly dance, feet kicking, he steps on markers.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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