the whole
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Still, the job can get quite intimate, organizing someone’s closet, returning their online impulse orders, booking doctor’s appointments for the whole family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, told the BBC that if a small fire broke out in the building "the whole lot would go up" - with 24-hour fire patrols in place.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
“It’s hard when you go your whole life being treated normally and all of a sudden over a one-month period the whole world adores you. It kind of reminds me of Stallone after ‘Rocky.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
In September, the whole economy added just 29,000 jobs, fewer than half the people Microsoft invited to leave in one offer.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Iditarod was a big event in Ikuma, the biggest of the whole year.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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