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There doesn't seem to be anything really serious--except that in a constitution like his everything is apt to be more or less serious After the funeral, life went on outwardly much as before at the Grimm home.

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  1. pronoun All things or all of a group of things.
  2. pronoun All relevant matters: told each other everything.
  3. pronoun The most important fact or consideration: In business, timing is everything.

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  • Possibly she believed him when he told her everything was her fault. —  process 11
  • I wanted to put my arms around her and tell her everything was all right. —  Death on the River Walk
  • The temptation to tell Rita everything was awfully strong. —  TheOne-WeekWife
  • After a decade of Labour everything is an offence, everyone is a suspect and no one is free to simply go about their business without state molestation. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Growing up in Louisiana everything was always "coke". —  doggdot.us
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thing ·  matter ·  life ·  fact ·  people ·  right ·  sir ·  food ·  money ·  change
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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  1. from every + thing. Cf. anything, something, nothing.
 

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/ˈɛvrɪθɪŋ/
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