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whole mess

NOUN

whole caboodle

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WEAK

all of it full measure full monty kit and caboodle limit whole ball of wax whole bit whole deal whole hog whole kit and boodle whole kit and caboodle whole nine yards whole shebang whole shooting match whole show whole shtick works

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Even if they prove fairly insulated from a wipeout, they do stand to lose significant business from the whole mess.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Compliance means adding reverse-osmosis stages, more ion-exchange capacity, additional sensors, cloud-monitoring platforms, and consultants to integrate the whole mess.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

In a family kitchen in Ohio, another skips the eggs entirely but slides the whole mess — pasta, sauce, meat, cheese — into the oven, no recipe in sight.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2025

Only at that moment did a potential way out of the whole mess present itself.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023

Over the whole mess, he had written in pencil Unknown.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

whole mess

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