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adverb

at all times; always: an ever-present danger; He is ever ready to find fault.

continuously: ever since then.

at any time: Have you ever seen anything like it?

in any possible case; by any chance; at all (often used to intensify or emphasize a phrase or an emotional reaction as surprise or impatience): How did you ever manage to do it? If the band ever plays again, we will dance.

adjective

South Midland and Southern U.S. every: She rises early ever morning.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Idioms

ever and again, now and then; from time to time. Also, Literary, ever and anon.

ever so, to a great extent or degree; exceedingly: They were ever so kind to me.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English ǣfre

Synonyms
1. eternally, perpetually, constantly. See always.

Antonyms
1. never.

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The soul has been a dead end in philosophy ever since the positivists unmasked its empty referential center.

The historical debate is as hot, and unsettled, as ever.

The rapidly spreading disease affects more people than ever before.

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The soul has been a dead end in philosophy ever since the positivists unmasked its empty referential center.

The historical debate is as hot, and unsettled, as ever.

The rapidly spreading disease affects more people than ever before.

Hardly anybody involved in this movie had ever made one before, including me.

It was the first untethered walk ever and was among the last.

Talk about eating local: grow your freshest food ever in this circular garden plot.

In the past several years, hoodies have become much more of an outlet for creative expression than ever before.

For all the concern expressed about the imminent demise of the college library, librarians are needed more than ever.

As the country emerges from recession, the reality looks ever more.

Now it sees more clearly than ever into dark corners of the universe.

Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one few scientists have ever witnessed.

HeLa cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture and are invaluable to medical researchers.

Rouse says with this pretty pattern to look at her second story view is better than ever.

We traveled further and controlled more land in a few weeks than what has ever been achieved in military history.

Don't even try unless you are adding a lot more value than the average daily newspaper ever did.

If you ever wanted to grow up to be a dinosaur hunter, now is the time to do it.

He's old enough to collect social security, yet he appears stronger and more hip than ever.

It's the focus of the largest environmental restoration project ever attempted.

The neighborhoods are easier than ever to visit in tandem, thanks to the bicycle-and.

No interviews for post-doc positions have ever been held in the history of the post-doc.

Companies which do this may find that they create large, useless databases full of information that nobody ever uses.

The biggest squid ever caught has begun defrosting in a huge tank.

Even the youngest children know, experience and learn far more than scientists ever thought possible.

What scientists are learning from the best recorded earthquake ever could help prepare for future ones.

If you ever have time, try making your granola from scratch.

Anybody who's ever wrestled with a grouper on the end of their line knows these monsters don't take well to.

Yet it is finding it ever harder to persuade residents to pay for them.

The particles that once seemed impossibly esoteric have become ever more informative.

It is also the largest, by far, public work ever put on view.

Shoulder-to-shoulder planting in double-dug soil delivers more food per square foot than any system we've ever used.

His clarity and focus over the past couple of months were sharper than they had ever been.

The retina processes information much morethan anyone has ever imagined, sending a dozen different movies to the brain.

It may prove to be the largest that has ever toured the country.

If ever there were a flower tailor-made for bold color, it's the gerbera.

Your mission is more important today than ever before.

It's the first probe ever built to track fast weather systems and long-term climate change.

They form a vortex from which no ship has ever been able to escape.

With the economy expected to get worse before it gets better, many students will struggle more than ever to pay for college.

By peering deep into the early universe, astronomers have edged ever closer to an answer.

We learned to read in first grade, and those skills have served us well ever since.

Workers are traveling ever longer to attain the job or home life they want, but the daily stress may outweigh the gains.

In the meantime, don't ever call or contact me again.

Astronomers believe they may have discovered the first planet ever detected in another galaxy.

He's been bitter ever since his family got forced off the plantation.

Ten years ago two teams discovered that the universe will expand forever at an ever faster rate, thanks to an unseen energy.

But fewer students than ever reported good emotional health.

Americans today choose among more options in more parts of life than has ever been possible before.

Don't ever tell a copy editor that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Physics has progressed by making ever more accurate measurements of their values.

The universe is a complicated place, to put it mildly, and scientists are working harder than ever to explain its mysteries.

The only question is whether the launch escape system will ever find use atop a real rocket.

And identifying the minerals is key to understanding whether water ever played over them.

In short, it erases all the signs that a big bang ever occurred.

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ever (ˈɛvə)

—*adv*
1.	at any time: have you ever seen it?
2.	by any chance; in any case: how did you ever find out?
3.	at all times; always: ever busy
4.	in any possible way or manner: come as fast as ever you can
5.	informal chiefly (Brit) (intensifier, in the phrases ever so, ever such, and ever such a): ever so good; ever such bad luck; ever such a waste
6.	archaic ever and again, ever and anon now and then; from time to time
7.	slang (US), (Canadian) is he ever! he displays the quality concerned in abundance

[Old English ǣfre, of uncertain origin]

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Word Origin & History

ever

O.E. æfre, no cognates in any other Gmc. language; perhaps a contraction of a in feore, lit. "ever in life" (the expression a to fore is common in O.E. writings). First element is almost certainly related to O.E. a "always, ever," from P.Gmc. *aiwo, from PIE *aiw- "vital force, life, long life,

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eternity." (see eon).

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Idioms & Phrases

ever

In addition to the idiom beginning with ever, also see hardly ever; live happily ever after.