every inch
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Digital disaffection has bled into our lives like dye onto white linen, creeping through every inch of the fabric until it’s covered in amorphous patterns of color; some beautiful, some painfully ugly.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Pushing through the glass double doors, I found every inch of the restaurant pulsating with some kind of sensory experience.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
And with a permissive referee running the show, Argentina took every inch of latitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Sentencing Ali on Wednesday, Recorder Simon James said people had been "packed into every inch of available space", and were left "at the mercy of the unpredictable sea".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
I carefully studied every inch of the Disney Marathon Fundraiser to Beat Diabetes website.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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