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in the course of

PREPOSITION

during

Synonyms

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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 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

It was only in the course of appealing the family court ruling did Torres Campos’ lawyer mention that the two cited precedents were “invented case law.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

And yet, as you said, Bondi is now claiming the power to stop state bars from investigating DOJ lawyers for ethical violations in the course of their duties.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

The feisty heroine is Iris Hawkins, who, in the course of a tentative love affair with a nerdy engineer named Geoffrey Hale, discovers the pernicious designs of a secret order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

In response, the Cherokee chiefdoms gradually found themselves compelled to join into a single confederacy in the course of the 18th century.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

in the course of

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