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on the whole

adverb as in all told

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“The whole O-line was cheering me on the whole time, and nobody got negative,” Duncan said.

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“You want us to do the gravy or a few sides because you’re feeding such a crowd that it’s impossible to take on the whole thing yourself.”

The malaise in Canadian industry has weighed on the whole economy.

Speaking to the BBC, he said that "on the whole, work and health are mutually reinforcing".

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AI news seemed to overshadow the day’s economic data, with the latest Institute for Supply Management’s Purchasing Managers’ Index, or PMI, showing that tariffs are still weighing on U.S. manufacturing on the whole.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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