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A word humans deploy with total confidence and almost never mean literally.
means At all times, on every occasion, or forever — without exception.
from From Old English ealne weg, literally 'all the way,' once a phrase about distance — covering the entire road — that gradually slid from space into time, coming to mean 'the whole stretch of time' and then simply 'every time.' The final -s arrived later, the adverbial -s that English liked to tack onto words like 'towards' and 'unawares.'
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