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whole

[hohl] / hoʊl /






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"We wanted to go somewhere that would take our whole family on an adventure with us," Hayden said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Diners, meanwhile, are already expressing an aversion to the whole thing.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Allegations of safety issues add a whole new concern and dimension to the problem that requires Metrolink take a closer look at what’s going on.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Today, they run about 250 head on grass they have placed under a permanent conservation easement, selling meat directly to customers and field-harvesting each animal on the pasture where it has lived its whole life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

He spent four whole days thinking of a good name for his horse.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Even so, it is the act of assembling disparate icons and references into resonant wholes that affords Saar’s sculptures and tableaux their personal and political import.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

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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