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thoroughly

[thur-uh-lee, thuhr-] / ˈθɜr ə li, ˈθʌr- /




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Shannon made a comment about how the songs were grouped together thematically — plants and flowers and I forget the third element, which struck me as a thoroughly R.E.M. way of doing things.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

A fiduciary that objectively and thoroughly analyzes these factors is presumed to have made reasonable judgments and gets significant deference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

England national selector Marcus North said: "Mason Crane has been performing consistently for Glamorgan across both formats during the summer. He's an experienced, high-class leg-spinner who thoroughly deserves another opportunity at international level."

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden”—the latter of which Zoe Kazan has now adapted into a thoroughly absorbing series with an astonishing Florence Pugh—are forbidding tomes, for students and teachers alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

By the mid-1770s, the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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