at the same time
prep_phrase1
At the same instant.
- Their departures were at the same time.
- They departed at the same time.
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- I bid him come towards me and give me his letter, at the same time throwing down, carelessly, a book I had in my hands.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
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Overlapping or coinciding in duration.
- I'm working. But at the same time, I'm exercising too.
- His service as chairman was at the same time as his board membership
2 more examples
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
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On the other hand (introducing an opposing viewpoint).
Sentence adverb
- Derived terms
- walk and chew gum at the same time