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
At a deeper level, Obama explores his search for identity as a man of mixed race and split national heritage, as well as the thoroughgoing problems of racism in America.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
Rosalía, “Motomami” Another thoroughgoing work of pop scholarship, this one from a Spanish singer, songwriter and producer for whom cultural boundaries exert all the weight of ink on a mapmaker’s paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 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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