everyone
Americanpronoun
pronoun
Usage
See each.
Everyone and everybody are interchangeable, as are no one and nobody, and someone and somebody. Care should be taken to distinguish between everyone and someone as single words and every one and some one as two words, the latter form correctly being used to refer to each individual person or thing in a particular group: every one of them is wrong
Etymology
Origin of everyone
First recorded in 1175–1225, everyone is from the Middle English word everichon. See every, one
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Example Sentences
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Of course, by that time, everyone had moved on.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
He told officers his daughter, with whom he was travelling, was "unaware" of what had happened and said, "I have deceived everyone".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Since Anthropic couldn’t verify users’ nationalities in real time, it turned the models off for everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont responded to the US walkout, saying: "This year we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. And everyone knows the role France has played in that."
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
When I get home, everyone knows what happened at school.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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