Ever
adverb
At any time or in any event.
If you ever need help, just give me a call.
Often appears as...
- if ever
- ever since
adverb
Used in questions to suggest surprise or doubt.
How did he ever pass his driving test?
Often appears as...
- who ever
- what ever
adverb
Used in comparisons for emphasis.
This is the best movie ever!
Often appears as...
- best ever
- worst ever
adverb
Used to emphasize a negative or used in phrases introducing an exception or contrast.
Don't ever talk to me like that again.
Often appears as...
- don't ever
- won't ever
adverb
Increasingly; more and more.
Things were getting ever more difficult.
Often appears as...
- ever more
- ever greater
adverb
At any time or in any event.
If you ever need help, just give me a call.
Often appears as...
- if ever
- ever since
adverb
Used in questions to suggest surprise or doubt.
How did he ever pass his driving test?
Often appears as...
- who ever
- what ever
adverb
Used in comparisons for emphasis.
This is the best movie ever!
Often appears as...
- best ever
- worst ever
adverb
Used to emphasize a negative or used in phrases introducing an exception or contrast.
Don't ever talk to me like that again.
Often appears as...
- don't ever
- won't ever
adverb
Increasingly; more and more.
Things were getting ever more difficult.
Often appears as...
- ever more
- ever greater
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Offering Help
Use 'ever' to show openness for future assistance, making it a polite expression.
If you ever need a friend, I'm here.
Pro Tip 2/2Open Possibility
'Ever' can imply that something hasn't happened yet, but could happen at any time.
Have you ever been to Australia?
Pro Tip 1/2Offering Help
Use 'ever' to show openness for future assistance, making it a polite expression.
If you ever need a friend, I'm here.
Pro Tip 2/2Open Possibility
'Ever' can imply that something hasn't happened yet, but could happen at any time.
Have you ever been to Australia?
Pro Tip 1/2Offering Help
Use 'ever' to show openness for future assistance, making it a polite expression.
If you ever need a friend, I'm here.
Pro Tip 2/2Open Possibility
'Ever' can imply that something hasn't happened yet, but could happen at any time.
Have you ever been to Australia?
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Your body language may...
I was so afraid of being found out the next day that I called her and said, "I'm quitting." She was like, "You are not quitting, because I took a gamble on you, and you're staying. You're going to stay, and this is what you're going to do. You are going to fake it. You're going to do every talk that you ever get asked to do. You're just going to do it and do it and do it,
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The world’s most...
What secrets do its pages contain? He purchased the manuscript from the cash-strapped priest at the college, and eventually brought it to the U.S., where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century. Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one's ever seen before.
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Can you solve the...
There are no reflective surfaces, all water is in opaque containers, and most importantly, they're not allowed to communicate among themselves. Though they do see each other during each morning's head count. Nevertheless, they all know no one would ever risk trying to leave
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Questions No One Knows...
All we know is the answer is somewhere between zero and infinity. Well, I guess we know one other thing. This is a pretty cool time to be studying physics. We just might be undergoing the biggest paradigm shift in knowledge that humanity has ever seen.
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Would you sacrifice one...
that study participants don't take it seriously. But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one.
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The Infinite Hotel...
and room pi, where the guests expect free dessert. What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more,
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A whale saved my life PIPE...
I've ever seen in my life and I've spent my entire life underwater. and I've seen plenty of tiger sharks. This was like a truck. This was a huge tiger shark and it was coming right for me. That's when I did have a little bit of a panic.
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How to deal with...
and I said the words child abuse for the first time out loud I said it playfully so she didn't feel like it was an attack on her and immediately her response was what about mommy abuse nobody ever talks
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Rethinking infidelity...
because they raise these questions. Is this it? Is there more? Am I going on for another 25 years like this? Will I ever feel that thing again?
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Sea Monsters PIPE National...
deep in time to a lost age unlike anything you've ever known
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Your body language may...
I was so afraid of being found out the next day that I called her and said, "I'm quitting." She was like, "You are not quitting, because I took a gamble on you, and you're staying. You're going to stay, and this is what you're going to do. You are going to fake it. You're going to do every talk that you ever get asked to do. You're just going to do it and do it and do it,
Video examples
The world’s most...
What secrets do its pages contain? He purchased the manuscript from the cash-strapped priest at the college, and eventually brought it to the U.S., where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century. Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one's ever seen before.
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Can you solve the...
There are no reflective surfaces, all water is in opaque containers, and most importantly, they're not allowed to communicate among themselves. Though they do see each other during each morning's head count. Nevertheless, they all know no one would ever risk trying to leave
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
All we know is the answer is somewhere between zero and infinity. Well, I guess we know one other thing. This is a pretty cool time to be studying physics. We just might be undergoing the biggest paradigm shift in knowledge that humanity has ever seen.
Video examples
Would you sacrifice one...
that study participants don't take it seriously. But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one.
Video examples
The Infinite Hotel...
and room pi, where the guests expect free dessert. What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more,
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A whale saved my life PIPE...
I've ever seen in my life and I've spent my entire life underwater. and I've seen plenty of tiger sharks. This was like a truck. This was a huge tiger shark and it was coming right for me. That's when I did have a little bit of a panic.
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How to deal with...
and I said the words child abuse for the first time out loud I said it playfully so she didn't feel like it was an attack on her and immediately her response was what about mommy abuse nobody ever talks
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Rethinking infidelity...
because they raise these questions. Is this it? Is there more? Am I going on for another 25 years like this? Will I ever feel that thing again?
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Sea Monsters PIPE National...
deep in time to a lost age unlike anything you've ever known
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I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
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Jim Carrey
Canadian Comedian
I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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American Rapper
Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
British Poet
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Aesop
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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British Actor
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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Jim Morrison
American Singer
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
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The world remains ever the same.
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