end to end
Idioms-
In a row with the ends touching. For example, The logs were laid end to end . [Mid-1800s]
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from end to end . Throughout the length of something, as in We hiked the Appalachian Trail from end to end . [First half of 1600s]
Example Sentences
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End-to-end encryption can hide videos from even the companies hosting the data.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
End-to-end encryption essentially means that no one except the users who send or receive a given communication are privy to the contents of that communication, including the government and the platform.
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2025
End-to-end encryption is a method of keeping texts, photos, videos and phone calls private so that third parties cannot get access to the content.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023
"End-to-end encryption", "backdoors" and "client-side scanning" - the biggest row in technology sounds very complicated.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023
End-to-end Connections.—These consist of loose end-to-end unions of the fiber branches of certain neurons with the dendrites of other neurons.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
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