Synonyms for meanwhile
ˈminˌʰwaɪl, -ˌwaɪlmean·while

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1. meanwhileadverb

   Synonyms:
   meanwhilst, the while, in the meantime, meantime

2. meanwhileadverb

   During the time (that something is happening).

   Synonyms:
   in the meantime, meantime, the while, meanwhilst

3. meanwhileadverb

   At the same time, but elsewhere.

   Synonyms:
   meantime, in the meantime, meanwhilst, the while

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1. interim, meantime, meanwhile, lagadverb

   the time between one event, process, or period and another

   "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

   Synonyms:
   interim, stave, slowdown, lag, retardation, meantime

2. meanwhileadverb

   at the same time but in another place

   "meanwhile, back at the ranch..."

   Synonyms:
   meantime, in the meantime

3. meanwhile, meantime, in the meantimeadverb

   during the intervening time

   "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified"

   Synonyms:
   meantime, in the meantime

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1. meanwhileadjective

   Synonyms:
   in the mean time, in the interim

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1. meanwhileadverb

   Synonyms:
   meantime, during the interval

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1. List of paraphrases for "meanwhile":

   meantime, concurrently, moreover, furthermore, simultaneously, besides

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How to use meanwhile in a sentence?

1. Michael Avenatti:

   I am completely innocent of these charges, the government is spending millions of dollars to prosecute me for a case that should have never been filed. Meanwhile, they continue to allow Trump and his co-conspirators to walk free and suffer no consequences for their criminal conduct. That is not justice.

2. Lauren Boebert:

   President Biden's assault on American's energy productionis causing the skyrocketing gas prices that we're seeing at the pump, thousandshave lost their jobs and tens of thousandswill be losing their jobs. Meanwhile the rest of the world, they're laughing at us as we purchase more energy from countries that hate our guts.

3. Yaacov Lozowick:

   We had to free up workers to do this other job. Meanwhile, we are not closing the room, we have no intention whatsoever of using this new stage to hide information that the public should be able to see - categorically not.

4. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich:

   We advise Washington and Ottawa to think about the consequences of such actions. Meanwhile, we will work on retaliatory measures.

5. Eva Longoria:

   Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter.