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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
In 1976, Biden, then 33, was a thoroughgoing Jimmy Carter Democrat.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023
The publication’s thoroughgoing examinations of knotty questions simply lead to more questions.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022
Once an outlier in his tool kit, these unruly show tunes have developed into a thoroughgoing fascination.
From New York Times • May 12, 2022
And when we didn't, of course, find it anywhere in my room—although I gave a very credible, thoroughgoing search, looking even inside my tie shoes—Mami did not persist but let the matter drop.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
