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Recent Examples of whole number
If the total is showing a decimal like 36.5, go to the nearest whole number.
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Bianca London, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2025
In the March 6 episode of Hulu's The Kardashians, the Good American founder celebrated her 40th birthday while wearing a bejeweled denim corset, a pair of darker skin-revealing jeans and a denim cowboy hat to match the whole number.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
To use the tool, taxpayers will need to enter their Social Security number, or ITIN, their filing status and exact dollar amount of their refund rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
All projections and probabilities are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
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Bianca London, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2025
In the March 6 episode of Hulu's The Kardashians, the Good American founder celebrated her 40th birthday while wearing a bejeweled denim corset, a pair of darker skin-revealing jeans and a denim cowboy hat to match the whole number.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
To use the tool, taxpayers will need to enter their Social Security number, or ITIN, their filing status and exact dollar amount of their refund rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
All projections and probabilities are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for whole number
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whole number
Noun
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Kim did not specify the number of employees who could be affected or the units that would see layoffs.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Collecting 16 games of action last year, the numbers were back up in a big way.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
Noun
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The Giants led 8-2 heading into the sixth inning with Webb on the mound, which is typically the kind of win probability that comes in three digits instead of two.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Walker rejected the committees’ effort to block that part of the law and turned down a request to block a requirement that petition gatherers register with the state and provide their names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.—
Dara Kam,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 July 2025
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whole%20number. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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