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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Blanchett knows this is a personal decision, and that his strategy isn’t for everyone.
But at the time, everyone was busy trying to save their own families.”
Dujarric, of the UN, said the peacekeepers in Lebanon were "soldiers sent there on behalf of the international community... and everyone needs to ensure that they are protected and never targeted".
From BBC
Nearly everyone in England, Wales and Scotland is benefiting from the cut irrespective of their tariff, although the amounts will vary between households.
From BBC
Arians argued that making the officials full time would make everyone “answerable to the shield.”
From Los Angeles Times
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