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Recent Examples of whole number
Primes are whole numbers that are greater than 1 and are divisible by only 1 and themselves.
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Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But the Emmys rules dictate that when a category has under 20 submissions (but over eight,) the number of nominees will be whatever number of submissions the category receives divided by four, and rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
Illustration by Pablo Robles Note: Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Pablo Robles, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
This presupposes a whole number of other technologies, some of which were fairly esoteric prior to the AI boom; for example, digital twins and synthetic data.
—Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But the Emmys rules dictate that when a category has under 20 submissions (but over eight,) the number of nominees will be whatever number of submissions the category receives divided by four, and rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
Illustration by Pablo Robles Note: Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Pablo Robles, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
This presupposes a whole number of other technologies, some of which were fairly esoteric prior to the AI boom; for example, digital twins and synthetic data.
—Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whole number
Noun
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The number of showings depends on the voyage length.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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Last year, just four Baltimore opponents in 19 games reached that number.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This mantra has drawn a different caliber of investors in recent years who can afford the nine-digit valuations.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Some like to use a single Tabi nail as an accent in a mix-and-match manicure, and others go full Tabi on all ten digits.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whole%20number. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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