as in comprehensive
as in all-inclusive
The doctor took a holistic approach to the patient's care.
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Recent Examples of holistic
In 2024, the businesswoman and mom opened up about her holistic approach to treating her breast cancer diagnosis from nearly 10 years ago.
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Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
This holistic view found a powerful systemic counterpart in the Kaiser Permanente model.
—Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
The facility will offer prenatal care, birth services, postpartum care, lactation support, holistic reproductive health care, childbirth education, and wellness programming.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
Such a holistic view of the moon can reveal more about its history, especially how space rocks that have slammed into the moon to create craters have exposed the interior and flung lunar rocks across its surface.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2026
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Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
This holistic view found a powerful systemic counterpart in the Kaiser Permanente model.
—Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
The facility will offer prenatal care, birth services, postpartum care, lactation support, holistic reproductive health care, childbirth education, and wellness programming.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
Such a holistic view of the moon can reveal more about its history, especially how space rocks that have slammed into the moon to create craters have exposed the interior and flung lunar rocks across its surface.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for holistic
comprehensive
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While there are no comprehensive studies comparing the environmental impacts of cultivated versus conventional seafood, alternatives like Wildtype could avoid ocean pollution and overfishing, which have caused losses in biodiversity and destroyed the ocean’s resiliency.—
Jaia Clingham-David,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 Apr. 2026
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Manson’s story culminates with the war in Ukraine, in which Maven has helped mitigate Russia’s advantages; the conflict became an inflection point for comprehensive national adoption.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Holistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/holistic. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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