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extensive

[ik-sten-siv] / ɪkˈstɛn sɪv /


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While he declined to reveal to CNN how much the diamond was insured for, he noted that extensive academic study into the properties of the diamond had taken place to make it uniquely identifiable.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The heart of a modern executive search process is an assessment that includes extensive interviews, elaborate background and reference checks—along with psychological testing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

He then sequenced the genetic material and carefully analyzed the extensive data to determine which microbes and genes became especially abundant as the bioplastics decomposed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Even though the community suffers from extensive poverty due in part to discrimination and the few resources refugees from a war-torn country are able to marshal, it has also produced a large number of entrepreneurs.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Madison, however, had kept his own extensive “Notes on the Debates at the Constitutional Convention” and carried them down to share with Jefferson, who was in retirement at Monticello.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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