wholesome
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“I didn’t want that clean, wholesome life ... It felt so fake. I identified with real people, oppressed people who were outside that life. I wanted to taste real life — street life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
But the Midwest is as wholesome as social media is toxic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"It was just a lovely wholesome time of Cambridge sightseeing and pubs, and now it is tarnished by these bedbug bites," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Others will make the mistake because they’re eager for a wholesome reminder that not everything here is that bad.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Maybe I’ll go wholesome and buy a friendship necklace.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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