at once

All at once, their titles became: artists, carpenters, producers, technicians, bookers, business owners and community leaders.

“Every once in a while, Southern California gets unlucky, and those three switches get flipped on at once.”

Because most of the people affected are individual homeowners, the demand for construction may not pile up all at once, but instead be staggered over multiple months.

The trailers arrived all at once, carrying hundreds of horses fleeing the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles.

Then, all at once, four of them said the same thing: “I smell fire.”