whole story

noun

: all the facts : everything
They failed to tell us the whole story.

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Bad choices like that are a through-line for this whole story, all the way back to Otto Hightower encouraging his daughter, Alicent, to befriend Rhaenyra’s father, King Viserys. Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 22 June 2026 That pause is the whole story for anyone who holds an insurance policy, because some of the rules in the firing line decide how the algorithms that price your cover are allowed to behave. Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026 Pull back, and the loss stops being the whole story and becomes just one chapter. Angela Haupt, Time, 18 June 2026 But that’s not the whole story. Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for whole story

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“Whole story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whole%20story. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.

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