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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Nearly everyone involved in this production has secrets to hide and pretensions to put on display.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
"Anyone and everyone with a ticket can enjoy the show."
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
It is a game where he cannot afford to slip up, but I also feel like he needs a performance to go with the win everyone is expecting.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
But you could also take it another way: as a speech that, bizarrely, had something for everyone.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026
I imagined she’d sailed in and everyone had fallen over themselves to give her that place.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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