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all told

adverb as in in all

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We are all told to stay busy in retirement—to fill our days traveling, volunteering, socializing or taking care of the grandchildren.

We spoke to people who had used the firm and they all told the same story.

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We all told him he should move out if he and his family couldn’t live with my mom.

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Some of it was pedestrian: He released around 130 albums, all told, and not everything can be a masterpiece.

Police said the women came from three different parts of the country but all told "very similar stories of harassment and coercive control".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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