whole idea
Example Sentences
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“The whole idea was that it doesn’t have to be boring. It doesn’t have to be stuffy. It can be really fun,” says Wyatt.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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
“Oh, yes, you have—the whole idea scares me stiff. But we’re going to do it.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
