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thoroughgoing

[thur-oh-goh-ing, -uh-goh-, thuhr-] / ˈθɜr oʊˌgoʊ ɪŋ, -əˌgoʊ-, ˈθʌr- /
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In many ways, “Becoming George” serves as a thoroughgoing and persuasive amendment to the incomplete legacy that has tailed Sand for so long.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 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

On the one hand, he was a thoroughgoing modernist.

From Washington Post Jan. 14, 2023

The publication’s thoroughgoing examinations of knotty questions simply lead to more questions.

From New York Times Dec. 30, 2022

Viroids can be so small and still thrive because they are thoroughgoing, unremitting parasites.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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