adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a thoroughgoing investigation of the case
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The tutoring program is a thoroughgoing success.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A thoroughgoing deconstructive analysis would show culture being absorbed into literature, or at least into textuality and verbal play.
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A thoroughgoing royalist, he was responsible for beheading some of those he captured, apparently after some form of trial.
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But they minimize the difference in so far as they propound a thoroughgoing assimilation of male and female desires.
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For Buckle, this laid the foundations for a thoroughgoing science of history, and others shared his belief.
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Such critical perspectives suggest we are in the midst of a thoroughgoing overhaul of traditional ideas about artistic value and meaning.
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The sociologist Scheff is probably the social scientist who has attempted the most thoroughgoing analysis of catharsis in social life.
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Then, too, right beside the moralizing lay a deep and thoroughgoing tolerance.
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There is no evidence that they were thoroughgoing pacifists.