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as in everywhere
in every place or in all places
I've looked all over—even outside—and I can't find my other shoe
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as in all
to a full extent or degree
his writing style is his mentor's all over
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as in underlying
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Recent Examples of allover
Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2022
Take, for example, the resurgence of the allover pattern room.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 25 May 2022
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2025
The celebration concluded with another set of battles, but this time on the turntables, with a selection of DJs from all over the world going face-to-face to earn a title of their own.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Adverb
Its door has a high-arched frame and a decorative allover circular pattern made from plastic.
—Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2022
Take, for example, the resurgence of the allover pattern room.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 25 May 2022
Adjective
Younger wealthy customers from all over the world have pushed the average age of a Lambo owner below 45.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2025
The celebration concluded with another set of battles, but this time on the turntables, with a selection of DJs from all over the world going face-to-face to earn a title of their own.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allover
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Since 2022, the number of films and TV shows made in the United States had dropped by about 40 percent, thanks to ballooning production costs at home, competition from overseas, and long-running labor disputes everywhere.—
Zoë Schiffer,
Wired News,
20 Aug. 2025
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Teddy bears were already everywhere but not part of a franchised empire that emerged from a book.—
Daniel Horowitz
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Remnants of those influences are all around the country.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind have all outlined escalating levels of safety precautions—akin to the military’s DEFCON system—corresponding to more powerful AI models.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
21 Aug. 2025
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And the underlying rationale there is that in any famine, starvation isn’t just people going without food.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Rolling Stone,
25 Aug. 2025
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The underlying profit fall from $654 million to $508 million did not prevent management from declaring a small increase in the half-year dividend, which was lifted from 13c to 13.4c.—
Tim Treadgold,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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That is not quite a concession, but an important change in tone.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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Sometimes my evenings, too, are an exercise in box-checking, dissociation, and faux self-care, my body piloted by a brain that has never quite switched off work mode.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
14 Aug. 2025
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Still, the largest enterprise customers will likely take much longer to fully transition.—
Steve McDowell,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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But time will tell if the royal family will ever be reunited fully.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Again, the superposed vector can be decomposed into its constituents.—
Anil Ananthaswamy,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2023
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Like entanglement, the superposed states essential to its power are fragile, collapsing when measured or otherwise perturbed by the outside world.—
Gabriel Popkin,
Science | AAAS,
3 June 2021
Adverb
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All three dogs are totally adored, and their owner even set up a dedicated TikTok account, @yorkiefamily3, to share updates on their day-to-day lives.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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That was just a totally different recording procedure.—
Pat Blashill,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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Each bite of this classic comfort food delivers taste and textural elements that perfectly compliment each other.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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The family restored it to its former glory and continue to display the historic motto on the walls - ‘No Pains, No Gains’, a motto Guigal declares epitomises the company’s ethos perfectly.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Allover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allover. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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