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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Since then, she's interviewed everyone from Cher to Ed Sheeran, and has become a celebrity in her own right.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Grateful to everyone for being with us through thick and thin for the past 50 years, thank you, take care," it said on social media, without providing further details.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Thank you to Army and everyone who is always with us," the group said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Rather than centralizing this power, we believe that delivering personal superintelligence to everyone is the way to answer this question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
It seemed it could be a different answer for everyone.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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