thoroughgoing
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“The Bloody Crossroads,” published in 1987, isn’t the kind of book you expect a journalist to write: a collection of perceptive, thoroughgoing literary essays on important writers from Henry Adams to Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
In 1976, Biden, then 33, was a thoroughgoing Jimmy Carter Democrat.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023
Ruangrupa’s devotion to the collaborative process and its various allergies — toward authorship, markets, ticketed shows and all the other beams and buttresses of the art world — are thoroughgoing.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Once an outlier in his tool kit, these unruly show tunes have developed into a thoroughgoing fascination.
From New York Times • May 12, 2022
In short, the Quaker petition for an end of the slave trade was really a stalking horse for a more radical and thoroughgoing scheme to end the institution of slavery itself.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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