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.

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all along

Perhaps the greater enabling force all along has been Western business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Of course, once an independent coroner from New Jersey confirmed what Zadroga and his family had said all along, Bloomberg apologized.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Maybe it would have gone better had he just admitted he was trying to make a little extra cash all along the way.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

"Many of our most important medicines have come from nature. I'm delighted that the components for a better-than-commercial antivenom were in these snakes all along."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Had he really named her—or had he just found the name she had wanted all along?

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville