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all along

Idioms  
  1. From the start, throughout, from end to end, as in I've known he was innocent all along. [c. 1600] Also see all along the line.


Example Sentences

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What it has been doing all along by proxy, it now does directly.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Seeing those results was deeply satisfying. It felt like revealing a hidden layer of information that had been there all along, waiting for the right way to be analyzed."

From Science Daily

As implied here all along, Netflix’s real triumph was driving up the price Paramount had to pay and saddling the newcomer with enough debt to hobble any challenge to Netflix’s streaming dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal

He knew—perhaps he had known all along—that I had to take the baby, that I had no control.

From Literature

Am I missing something big, or were my suspicions right all along?

From MarketWatch