whole story

noun

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

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What the Numbers Can and Cannot Say None of this makes a warming climate the whole story. John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026 The Knicks have spent four games proving those leads don’t tell the whole story. C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026 That, of course, isn't the whole story. Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026 While that sounds much more intuitive, a technique called X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy reveals that what’s on the surface might not be the whole story. Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 11 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 19 Jun. 2026.

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