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thoroughgoing

[thur-oh-goh-ing, -uh-goh-, thuhr-] / ˈθɜr oʊˌgoʊ ɪŋ, -əˌgoʊ-, ˈθʌr- /
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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

The publication’s thoroughgoing examinations of knotty questions simply lead to more questions.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022

In other words, that light touch is in the service of a thoroughgoing theatrical vision, what Blain-Cruz calls a “minimalist maximalist aesthetic, a kind of cleanliness and explosion at the same time.”

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2022

Unlike the viruses, they are not thoroughgoing parasites.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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