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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The NEH, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, have been in the thick of it the whole time.

From Salon • May 11, 2026

When she asked to speak to the manager, he came over and was "horribly rude, really really rude the whole time he was speaking to me", she said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 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

He frowned, but he did it, wincing the whole time.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

the whole time

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