: a musical rest corresponding in time value to a whole note
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That small change in perspective lifted the whole rest of my week.—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026 There are still a lot of question marks around the show — including the whole rest of the cast, which hasn't yet been announced, as well as exactly how high Dr. Frank-N-Furter's heels will be.—Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 24 Dec. 2025 Because of the way that resources are distributed in our fundamentally unequal society, very few people hold the trump cards in terms of wealth and resources over the whole rest of the population.—Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025 But there’s a whole rest of the world out there, too, with lots of fantastic destinations that don’t make it onto many travelers’ radars.—Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025 And that was kind of bothering me throughout the whole rest of the year.—Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 24 June 2022 So how does something in this tiny region influence the whole rest of it?—Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022 Anyone who cites these examples as proof that one person might be right while the whole rest of the world is wrong is being neither honest nor historically accurate.—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015