the whole picture

Example Sentences

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She says although she is confident the Quiet Revival report is "picking up a true trend", the response to it has shown her that she cannot rely on statistics alone to get the whole picture.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

If you invest your early benefits, look at the whole picture.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 28, 2025

“You’re almost tricking the audience, where they’re looking at the whole picture, and you’re able to seed things and tease things and make them paranoid about where they should be looking.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

New inflation data will help Fed officials, but it doesn’t provide the whole picture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

I saw the whole picture once, in a book.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns