whole idea
Example Sentences
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“I was completely immersed in the whole idea that I didn’t realize that I really just wanted to go back to Mexico,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
I can see why the selection makes a kind of sense, but doesn’t it undermine the whole idea of the revolution itself, which was about an Islamic state?
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
"What I'm sad about is that some people got it wrong, the whole idea of that event," said Sabalenka, speaking at the season-opening Brisbane International.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
The whole idea of slapping a label on people based on when they were born is a 20th-century invention, originating in Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim’s 1952 book “The Problem of Generations.”
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025
Admittedly, he'd only known her for twelve days, but the whole idea of the Theorem was that you didn't have to know someone intimately in order for it to work.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
