as in completely
to a full extent or degree
not wholly convinced by the evidence that the prosecutor presented
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Recent Examples of wholly
Fox Entertainment Studios will produce, with Fox Entertainment wholly owning the new series.
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
One of my favorite books about the Constitution, by historian Michael Kammen, argues the paradox of Americans’ relationship to the Constitution is that people appear to be so wholly wedded to a document that so few have ever read for themselves.
—Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
Stanfield co-stars as Grofield, his quick-thinking partner-in-crime who’s part actor, part hustler, and wholly unpredictable.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
Politics in football isn’t a wholly new phenomenon.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
One of my favorite books about the Constitution, by historian Michael Kammen, argues the paradox of Americans’ relationship to the Constitution is that people appear to be so wholly wedded to a document that so few have ever read for themselves.
—Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
Stanfield co-stars as Grofield, his quick-thinking partner-in-crime who’s part actor, part hustler, and wholly unpredictable.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
Politics in football isn’t a wholly new phenomenon.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wholly
Adverb
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For instance, the Comet browser still gets completely stumped on the website Semafor uses for expenses and travel.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Some neighborhoods have such high levels of destruction that the only option is to completely raze them and rebuild them.—
Shelly Culbertson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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To buy the Eight Sleep is to buy fully, with your whole body, into the idea that the future of sleep is technological.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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Quadcopter and multirotor drones Draganfly develops quadcopter and multirotor drones that are easy to use, quick to deploy, and fully calibrated at the company’s manufacturing facilities.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The comparisons do not totally capture what’s happening here, in any case.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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The key is going after the criminal element aggressively, assuring public safety totally, and helping addicts recover.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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To think Guardiola’s side are going to experience another dramatic slump in form would be to utterly ignore their recent history.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Made in equal parts as creator Hugo Ensslin originally conceived it, the Green Chartreuse utterly dominates the experience, but back down the liqueur and boost the other two ingredients a touch, and the Tipperary is a bold but charming drink.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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This shortfall was quite disappointing.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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There’s also been quite a bit of slash and burn.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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And a fourth-quarter catch-and-run from tight end Theo Johnson — on a pass that popped into the air off the hands of Wan’Dale Robinson — perfectly summed up the day, as Johnson put rookie corner Jahdae Barron in the turf for good measure.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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Mac did a great ball, perfectly on time.—
Michael Nowels,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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New Paramount leadership’s motives to license Hollywood Arts to Netflix instead of keeping it in-house on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ — or taking the first run and offering Netflix second window — are not entirely clear but the strategy shift will bring in sizable revenue.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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In Lake Ontario, treatments stopped entirely for one year, and the number of lampreys increased tenfold.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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However, that has all changed over the past few days as reports from outlets including , and uncovered past messages from Platner written on the message board site Reddit – some of which have been deleted as Platner seeks to distance himself from them.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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The all-too-frequent xenophobic knee-jerk reaction to Latin acts is often triggered by language alone.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Wholly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wholly. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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