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Those of us who have lived in multiple places will always feel, at some level, a question as to where, if anywhere, is definitively home, and what, in turn, we may call ourselves, because no one national label feels wholly right.
FOR A MULTIRACIAL WRITER, A LIFE MARKED BY EARTHQUAKES AND OTHER UPHEAVALSGABRIELLE BELLOTJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON POST
While financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, Weber has confirmed that June will continue to operate as its own brand wholly owned by Weber-Stephen Products and will continue to both sell and develop the June Oven and related products.
WEBER ACQUIRES SMART COOKING STARTUP JUNEDARRELL ETHERINGTONJANUARY 12, 2021TECHCRUNCH
More than 70 percent of the country’s nursing home providers use operating funds to pay themselves through so-called related parties — companies they or their family members partially or wholly own.
PROFIT AND PAIN: HOW CALIFORNIA’S LARGEST NURSING HOME CHAIN AMASSED MILLIONS AS SCRUTINY MOUNTEDDEBBIE CENZIPER, JOEL JACOBS, ALICE CRITES, WILL ENGLUNDDECEMBER 31, 2020WASHINGTON POST
It’s easy for me to resist the call of early-season touring—I lost a friend to an early-season avalanche, and another friend was nearly paralyzed after crashing into early-season rocks—but I wholly understand the desire.
LAST WEEKEND WAS A DEADLY ONE IN THE ROCKIESMARC PERUZZIDECEMBER 24, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
Researchers have uncovered secrets of a virus that, not so long ago, was wholly unknown.
AS 2020 COMES TO AN END, HERE’S WHAT WE STILL DON’T KNOW ABOUT COVID-19SCIENCE NEWS STAFFDECEMBER 9, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
The other two licenses went to an entity wholly owned by internet giant Sea, and a consortium of Greenland Financial Holdings, Linklogis Hong Kong and Beijing Cooperative Equity Investment Fund Management.
GRAB-SINGTEL AND ANT GROUP WIN DIGITAL BANK LICENSES IN SINGAPOREMANISH SINGHDECEMBER 4, 2020TECHCRUNCH
It is a city wholly controlled, thoroughly engineered for convenience.
SIMON HAN’S ‘NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED’ IS A POIGNANT STUDY OF THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCERON CHARLESNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST
The discovery is surprising, says Duncan Murdock, a paleobiologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, though perhaps not wholly unexpected, he adds.
MINERAL BODY ARMOR HELPS SOME LEAF-CUTTING ANTS WIN FIGHTS WITH BIGGER KINCHRISTIE WILCOXNOVEMBER 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
The shuttered carrier, Cathay Dragon, was founded in 1985 and since 2006 operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific.
HONG KONG HAS COVID-19 UNDER CONTROL—IT HASN’T HELPED ITS FLAGSHIP AIRLINENAOMI XU ELEGANTOCTOBER 21, 2020FORTUNE
Because you were invited because someone somehow thought you would be a fun person to have at a party, and despite being pre-informed and agreeing to be wholly fun, you were only half fun.
IS IT ETHICAL TO LIE TO GET SEX?EUGENE ROBINSONOCTOBER 12, 2020OZY
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WORDS RELATED TO WHOLLY

  • absolutely
  • direct
  • directly
  • due
  • entirely
  • exactly
  • right
  • straight
  • straightly
  • undeviatingly
  • wholly
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