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The jury had a whole hotel floor to themselves, and the judge at the time said there was no evidence they had any interaction with anyone linked to the case.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
There’s an overwhelming case for simplifying the tax system as a whole to create incentives for investment and cutting through the rules that privilege companies big enough to deploy the best-paid accountants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
His time on the show and working with executive producer Peter Berg “changed my whole way of looking at what acting was and is,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Half the corn is blended with stock and cream into a velvety sauce; the rest stays whole for juicy texture.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I saw the fire from the plane. I could not believe it. I did not expect it to be like that, that the whole city would burn like that. None of us did.”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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In Mangold’s hands, parts become wholes and the exhibition a master class in synecdoche: the tree is the forest; the painter a human representative negotiating with the natural world.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Food, trinkets and paper offerings are also extended to ancestors or deities, including wholes chickens, fruit, tea, sculptures, incense and candles.
From Fox News ● Jan. 27, 2022
Fragments force quick reading, ask for impressionistic understanding, and suggest parts rather than wholes.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Saar hops, skips and jumps among media, extracting the best of each and creating wholes greater than the sum of their parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
As wholes, or parts, with movement or just motionless figures, with special attention to the color spots or ignoring them, with lots of ideas or just a few stereotyped responses.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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