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The word awhile is an adverb meaning "for a while." The two-word expression a while is the article a plus the noun while, which means "a period of time" (as in "stay here for a while") or "the time and effort used" (as in "worth your while").
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- Perhaps having to wait awhile isn't an entirely bad thing. 9 N; V( ?/ ~5 `5 ?! H
- —Liza Mundy, The Atlantic, June 20156 q8 Z# g# \6 Z
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- She was having computer trouble, she told him, and would be offline for a while.
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+ M2 b7 _2 W& E9 V- At a luncheon I attended recently, a speaker shared with the audience something I had said a while ago.
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- Living deep in the Pennsylvania woods a while back, I became familiar with the trees that shaded my house and provided fuel for the stove…. - a$ S+ s/ Z" V6 S/ O
- —Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History, May 2015
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