thoroughgoing
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Merz also said it was "unacceptable" to add 2,500 new jobs at EU institutions and urged a "thoroughgoing reduction in bureaucracy".
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
In many ways, “Becoming George” serves as a thoroughgoing and persuasive amendment to the incomplete legacy that has tailed Sand for so long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
You get some sense of how thoroughgoing the cultural change would be from a 1980 work seen early in the show, “Hole in Space” by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
In 1976, Biden, then 33, was a thoroughgoing Jimmy Carter Democrat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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