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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
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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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Charlotte weekend forecast Temperatures will reach up to about 95 degrees in Charlotte Saturday, with the heat index reaching into triple digits, the NWS forecast says.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
19 July 2025
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The file was converted from binary format into hexadecimal, an encoding scheme that uses the digits 0 through 9 and the letters A through F to represent binary values in a compact combination of characters.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
16 July 2025
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whole%20number. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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