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

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

That this was a Northern band all along is spelled out explicitly in “Kingston Girl.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Maybe the wrong girls have been the ones with the right attitude all along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The Germans had constructed reinforced concrete pillboxes that housed machine guns, antiaircraft weapons, and light artillery all along the English Channel over to the Atlantic Ocean.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti