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in the course of

PREPOSITION

during

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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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Discovering in the course of this book that Kim Thayil has synesthesia — a condition where one sense triggers another — was a huge aha moment.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

What did you discover in the course of making the show?

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"It also recognises colleagues injured and killed in the course of doing their job."

From Barron's • May 29, 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

Rather, he had them, but they were in a perpetual state of regrowing from being burned off in the course of his alchemical pursuits.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

in the course of

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