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[hohl] / hoʊl /






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“Watermelon Sugar” was the summer the whole city seemed to be drinking it in.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

"That modularity is what turns AI plasma control from a series of one-off demonstrations into infrastructure the whole fusion community can build on."

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

"But... the whole country was full of vigour, and there was a spirit of struggling with heaven, earth, and people to change every aspect of China," the retiree said.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

His mature Douglass refuses to treat slavery as the whole meaning of the founding.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

We didn’t make it back in time for the awards ceremony at the pool, but in typical post–swim meet tradition, Coach took the whole team for pizza.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Each composer has a specific lighting color, to give a sense of which fragments combine to make wholes.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 2023

Food, trinkets and paper offerings are also extended to ancestors or deities, including wholes chickens, fruit, tea, sculptures, incense and candles.

From Fox News Jan. 27, 2022

Fragments force quick reading, ask for impressionistic understanding, and suggest parts rather than wholes.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

Saar hops, skips and jumps among media, extracting the best of each and creating wholes greater than the sum of their parts.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2020

As wholes, or parts, with movement or just motionless figures, with special attention to the color spots or ignoring them, with lots of ideas or just a few stereotyped responses.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes




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