comprehensive
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Gutierrez said a candidate who is serious about demonstrating a commitment to good governance should be comprehensive in their financial disclosures and could divest from any stock holdings.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
The goal would be to make available, to students of all ages everywhere, a truly comprehensive record of documented human civilizations and ideas in all their variety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Survivors hoped authorities would seize the precious policy window to introduce more comprehensive rules.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Authorities conducted “a comprehensive death investigation” and a “thorough search of the surrounding area,” authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Their goal was ambitious: to write History of Woman Suffrage, a comprehensive chronicle of the women’s movement.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Look, CSU and all regional comprehensives in this country have a budget problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
We were lucky enough to have a school field and a handful of concrete tennis and netball courts – riches beyond the dreams of most city comprehensives.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020
From BASIS’s first year in 1996-1997, students who failed the comprehensives had to retake them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2019
For one thing, they are more likely than comprehensives to be located outside city centres, with more space to grow.
From Economist ● Aug. 13, 2015
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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