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- adverb Alternative spelling of
wholeheartedly .
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Examples
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And why that's interesting to me is, I whole-heartedly loathed that movie.
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Mitt Romney (Mass.) and Tim Pawlenty (Minn.) have embraced whole-heartedly as they prepare to run for president in 2012.
The Fix: Chris Christie lays out a national vision Chris Cillizza 2011
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His buying whole-heartedly into the rampant contemporary condition -- with the implication that anything now written in 'Big Style is hopelessly retrograde -- represents nothing more nor less than another instance of an insidious cultural dumbing-down he refuses to acknowledge.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Simon Garfield's Enthralling Just My Type, Christopher Johnson's Less Than Enthralling Microstyle David Finkle 2011
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Mitt Romney (Mass.) and Tim Pawlenty (Minn.) have embraced whole-heartedly as they prepare to run for president in 2012.
Chris Christie lays out a national vision Chris Cillizza 2011
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For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most -- while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
Jane McGonigal: Want To Succeed In Life? Play Video Games Jane McGonigal 2011
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As the Artistic Director, I am personally going to match all donations up to $5,000 – not because being a choral conductor is a lucrative profession, but because I sincerely believe that the Canadian Chamber Choir deserves to be heard by a wider audience and I too am whole-heartedly committed to making this happen.
Help the Canadian Chamber Choir make its first professional recording ewillett 2009
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I am Low Income Housing activist, and I whole-heartedly believe that mayor McGinn is on the right course on the housing issue.
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Without a doubt, you are the party in Wales that has embraced this medium most whole-heartedly and the most strategically, and in the last year you have moved on in leaps and bounds.
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Also, I feel the need to say – I would gratefully and whole-heartedly accept milk from a milk bank if my baby needed it – but milk banks are extremely cautious about screening and testing donating mothers.
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For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most -- while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
Jane McGonigal: Want To Succeed In Life? Play Video Games Jane McGonigal 2011
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