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She took care of him through the whole illness, which I don’t take lightly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
“That just tore through this whole section right here. ... It just ripped on a straight line.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
It’s how Mizrahi instincts run through the whole country, including Israelis with no Mizrahi grandparents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Storm Boelo will follow hard on its heels on Saturday, with another yellow weather warning issued, this time for high winds, for the whole of mainland Scotland, the Western Isles and Orkney.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
On our bicycles it was a whole day’s hard ride.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
In Mangold’s hands, parts become wholes and the exhibition a master class in synecdoche: the tree is the forest; the painter a human representative negotiating with the natural world.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Food, trinkets and paper offerings are also extended to ancestors or deities, including wholes chickens, fruit, tea, sculptures, incense and candles.
From Fox News ● Jan. 27, 2022
Fragments force quick reading, ask for impressionistic understanding, and suggest parts rather than wholes.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Rather than meander every which way, Mann’s latest water ribbons coalesce into dazzling wholes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021
As wholes, or parts, with movement or just motionless figures, with special attention to the color spots or ignoring them, with lots of ideas or just a few stereotyped responses.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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