comprehensive
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After Cohen’s election, her office found itself in a public dispute over the state’s annual comprehensive financial report, a summary of California’s spending.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"We do not believe additional blanket inspections are necessary. There is already a comprehensive framework of regulation, building control, warranties and builder quality assurance in place."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The Australian government is now “undertaking a comprehensive forensic investigation into the incident,” a Services Australia spokeswoman said Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Her methods combine comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography with high-resolution mass spectrometry.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Virchow viewed the world in a way that made sense to Farmer, his vision a comprehensive one that included pathology—the study of disease—with social medicine, politics, and anthropology.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Look, CSU and all regional comprehensives in this country have a budget problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
From BASIS’s first year in 1996-1997, students who failed the comprehensives had to retake them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2019
Then, in the mid-1960s, the Labour government sped up their conversion into comprehensives.
From Economist ● Aug. 11, 2016
They divorced in 1967, and she taught English at a succession of inner London comprehensives.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2013
Overall some 44% of those on the list went to independent school, 27% to grammar school, 8% to a former direct grant school and 21% to comprehensives and other state schools.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2012
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