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every one

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pronoun

  1. each person or thing in a group, without exception

    every one of the large cats is a fast runner

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In 161 instances, according to the report, a plate that the system flagged as being stolen turned out to be wrong — although not every one of those cases led to a police intervention.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

When contacted by AFP, the Israeli police said it was "treating every one of these incidents with the utmost seriousness", including setting up "specialised joint task forces" and meeting with local community leaders.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

"The pope's visit speaks to every one of us," Kandeh Abdourahman, a migrant who arrived in Lampedusa in 2015, told news agency Reuters.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Greenspan understood business cycles better than anybody because he had studied every one of them since his first job out of college at the Conference Board starting in 1948.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

She was reduced to eating the pumpkin leaves when every one of the new vegetables was devoured by beetles.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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