the whole picture

Example Sentences

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Of course, this is far from the whole picture.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

If you invest your early benefits, look at the whole picture.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 28, 2025

“You’re almost tricking the audience, where they’re looking at the whole picture, and you’re able to seed things and tease things and make them paranoid about where they should be looking.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

“You need the whole picture, and that whole picture comes from data that are not being released during the shutdown,” Kolko said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

But Aunt Jessie didn’t quite have the whole picture from Emma’s letter.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman