whole story

noun

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

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The access question this whole story raises is one WWE's celebrity-heavy era will keep facing. Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 While the nursery tag provides a good starting point, plant tags often don’t tell the whole story, says Elisabeth Ginsburg, horticultural educator and author of the Gardener’s Apprentice. Colleen Sullivan, Martha Stewart, 21 July 2026 As an example, Gillibrand said that Giffords might throw out a single word to prompt Kelly to tell a whole story. Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026 Scary allegations are not the whole story If voters listened to Trump’s speech without the benefits of fact-checkers or even Google, things sound really, really scary. Philip Elliott, Time, 17 July 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 31 Jul. 2026.

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