wholly
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It can have limited utility in wholly new territory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
And sometimes, my book clubs read a novel that speaks so wholly to who they are — some unarticulated version — they wonder if they’d written it themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Echoing prior comments, Buffett said Apple is better than any of Berkshire’s wholly owned businesses.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
That is marital property that should go wholly to your husband upon your death and to you upon his death.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026
But the brazen claim that slavery must be accepted unconditionally as a permanent feature of the national confederation was, if not wholly new, at least an interpretive clarification never made before in a national forum.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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