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whole

[hohl] / hoʊl /






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She said: "I had a cheese fountain, salsa, guacamole, jalapenos, the chips. I had the whole works. I love it."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

But these swings weren’t showing up on the S&P 500 as a whole for a while.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

“I thought the whole place was going to fall down.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Shotwell joined SpaceX in its infancy, at a time when the space industry as a whole was somewhat risky, and a startup even more so.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

“My mom took our whole family to the Holocaust Museum in Houston. After that we had planned to go to lunch, but it just seemed wrong to experience that and then go have fries.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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