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Merz also said it was "unacceptable" to add 2,500 new jobs at EU institutions and urged a "thoroughgoing reduction in bureaucracy".

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

“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

At a deeper level, Obama explores his search for identity as a man of mixed race and split national heritage, as well as the thoroughgoing problems of racism in America.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023

Rosalía, “Motomami” Another thoroughgoing work of pop scholarship, this one from a Spanish singer, songwriter and producer for whom cultural boundaries exert all the weight of ink on a mapmaker’s paper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022

Before he spoke, he was terribly nervous—but how he described those nerves gives an insight into how thoroughgoing was his theory of oratory: Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith