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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

Example Sentences

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That sometimes, the thing that makes a dish feel complete isn’t something new at all, but something that’s been sitting in your kitchen the whole time, waiting to be seen a little differently.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

The ads depict actress Pamela Anderson prompting a chatbot to create models before revealing that they were real people the whole time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

I finally looked up the species: It was a gallinazo, also known as a black vulture, and as much as we might ignore them, they’d been circling the whole time.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

In my head, it felt like Jackson and the other characters were there the whole time hollering, “Hurry up and get us out there!”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Both he and Kareem have been spitting seeds down at me the whole time, but that was the first one to reach me.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner