all along
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The disruption has been good for local business all along the value chain.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Today, the state confirmed what survivors have known all along: Provo Canyon School failed the children in its care.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Perhaps we really do live in a “demented slaughterhouse of a world,” as the unhinged newsman Howard Beale says in one of his apocalyptic broadcasts, and have all along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
It turns out the answer all along was to wait for a bunch of college kids to come along and start waving their shirts around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
She lined up books all along the edges so I wouldn’t fall off.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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