exhaust (all) the possibilities

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idiom (1)

: to try everything one can
They've exhausted (all) the possibilities.

exhaust all/the possibilities

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idiom (2)

: to do everything one can think of doing

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In a recent podcast episode devoted to the book, the political theorist Lea Ypi reminded Runciman that our current political and corporate configurations hardly exhaust the possibilities for collective life. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023 As schools exhaust the possibilities of trims around the margins, what is left, administrators say, is payroll, typically the largest line item in higher education. Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
Idiom
In a recent podcast episode devoted to the book, the political theorist Lea Ypi reminded Runciman that our current political and corporate configurations hardly exhaust the possibilities for collective life. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023 The acoustic detection was one significant piece of information, but the search had to continue to exhaust all possibilities, said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Alex Horton, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023

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