the whole picture

Example Sentences

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Of course, this is far from the whole picture.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Investors are betting on peace — but they’re not looking at the whole picture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

City Councilmember Nithya Raman came out ahead of incumbent Karen Bass in a new poll on the Los Angeles mayor’s race, though the poll’s director cautioned that it did not give the whole picture.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

They try their best to fit it into models, but things are spiraling out so quickly that many climate models fail to capture the whole picture or accurately predict how our world is changing.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

If my hand had shaken even a tiny bit, it would have ruined the whole picture.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt