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• This industry was created out of whole cloth and it’s changed the world.
  — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
• One of them had created the infographic out of whole cloth, with the hopes that it would be picked up in right-wing internet spaces and persuade Trump supporters not to vote in the runoff.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 July 2021
• The rough congruence validates that the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec didn’t make records out of whole cloth, but there were likely fudges, guesses, and deceptions on the margins.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
• Racial incidents proliferated that seemed to have been invented out of whole cloth.
  — WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• Regardless of the sport, the debuts of expansion teams, those created out of whole cloth, are notoriously poor performances.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• But there’s a big difference between harboring doubts over how much we have been told about Trump’s health, and embracing theories that his diagnosis is manufactured out of whole cloth.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2020
• This is an effort by the Left to create a day out of whole cloth to celebrate identity politics as part of its larger efforts to make Critical Race Theory the reigning ideology of our country.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
• That is another free-market problem, and another fantasy, one created out of whole cloth by actors in the pharmaceutical industry.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2021
• Tidio said that some surveyed pointed out that AI had not created their digital canvases out of whole cloth; the images rely on existing artworks, and those artists are going uncredited and uncompensated.
  — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 27 July 2022
• Opponents of qualified immunity deride the principle as having been created by the Court out of whole cloth—an argument that mirrors one often employed by critics of Roe who are dismissive of its legal basis.
  — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• But the software can also create characters out of whole cloth, going beyond traditional editing software and expensive special effects tools used by Hollywood, blurring the line between fact and fiction to an extraordinary degree.
  — Paul Mozur, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024