thoroughgoing
Example Sentences
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“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.
The irrepressible Mr. Ozawa surmounted this prejudice by dint of his outsize personality, thoroughgoing musicianship and sheer hard work.
From New York Times
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
In 1976, Biden, then 33, was a thoroughgoing Jimmy Carter Democrat.
From Los Angeles Times
On the one hand, he was a thoroughgoing modernist.
From Washington Post
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