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

The disruption has been good for local business all along the value chain.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Today, the state confirmed what survivors have known all along: Provo Canyon School failed the children in its care.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Perhaps we really do live in a “demented slaughterhouse of a world,” as the unhinged newsman Howard Beale says in one of his apocalyptic broadcasts, and have all along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Leopards occur and move all along the length of the Cape Fold Belt mountain chain, which serves as a refuge for the cats.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

There they found the thing they’d needed most all along.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega