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wholesome

[hohl-suhm] / ˈhoʊl səm /


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The musical’s tunes are among the most widely known English-language songs in China, embraced as a wholesome and earnest tale about love of one’s homeland and taught in classrooms across the country for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The Independent gave it the same score, calling Race Across the World "a wonderful source of escapism in uneasy times" and "the most wholesome show on TV".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

But how do you solve a problem like Alan Jay Lerner’s book, written for a sensibility markedly more wholesome than our own?

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

If the goal was to make Jackson’s proclivities look normal and wholesome, congratulations, “Michael” is a spectacular failure.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

The wholesome and varied diet, the relatively short working week, and the rarity of infectious diseases have led many experts to define pre-agricultural forager societies as ‘the original affluent societies’.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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