wholes

plural of whole

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Noun
  • Only Spain misses out on the centerline, but long totalities are still possible there — up to 4 minutes, 40 seconds.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Rainfall totals are expected to range from a couple tenths of an inch to a half inch.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Today’s operating carbon capture facilities store on the order of ~50 million tonnes of CO₂ per year, and the International Energy Agency’s credible near-term pipeline lifts that to only a few hundred million tonnes by the 2030s—global totals that include projects still finding steel and permits.
    Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The previous high for a single window was the £398m spent by Chelsea in 2023, and though the latter’s spending over the course of a season then might still outstrip Liverpool’s (Chelsea went big that January too), there’s no denying the sums dispensed from Merseyside have been huge.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Wholes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wholes. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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