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entirety

[en-tahyuhr-tee, -tahy-ri-] / ɛnˈtaɪər ti, -ˈtaɪ rɪ- /


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Using shaped canvases and also experimenting with sculpture, the artist deployed boundary-pushing techniques that are represented by works spanning the entirety of his career.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

New York 12 is an area of midtown that covers some of the richest parts of the city: Chelsea, the Upper West and Upper East sides, the Met, and the entirety of Central Park.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

The world economy had consumed nearly as many materials in the previous six years as in the entirety of the 20th century, it said.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

Confining a world-famous pop star to a blustery old house in the English countryside for the entirety of a film seems inharmonious.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Rêves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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