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never
[nev-er]
adverb
not ever; at no time.
Such an idea never occurred to me.
not at all; absolutely not.
never mind;
This will never do.
to no extent or degree.
He was never the wiser for his experience.
never
/ ˈɛə /
adverb
at no time; not ever
certainly not; by no means; in no case
interjection
Also: well I never!.surely not!
Usage
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of never1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of never1
Idioms and Phrases
never cease to amaze. never cease to amaze.
never mind, don't bother; don't concern yourself.
Example Sentences
Now, however, it seems the world may never know which of them is truly its fastest runner.
“There has never been a successful social movement in this country that has not had a great soundtrack,” Morello said.
“I will never forget him holding me on that balcony,” she said as a defense lawyer challenged the date she provided with evidence of Combs’s being elsewhere at a hotel across the country.
“We’ve all felt hunger…But most of us born here have never feared stepping outside our door,” he wrote on Instagram.
The debt was never repaid and the islands have remained part of Scotland ever since then.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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