all the way
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Also, the whole way . The entire distance, from start to finish, as in He ran all the way home , or The baby cried the whole way home . [Late 1700s]
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Completely, as in I'm on your side all the way . [First half of 1900s]
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See go all the way .
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From that moment, Mercedes covers 100% of the development costs, all the way through karting to the jump to cars around age 14, to the lower series of open-wheel racing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Every barrier broken is a notch in a glass ceiling, and the ceiling does not care much whether the person who cracked it got to walk all the way through.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
SpaceX isn’t all the way there in its efforts to compete with the big three U.S. wireless carriers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
“We see that they’re really going to have to fight it out all the way to the end.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
From all the way across the room, Oliver met my eyes and grinned, raising his hand in a casual wave.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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