exhaustive
adjective
ex·haus·tive
ig-ˈzȯ-stiv 
: including all possibilities : thorough
conducted an exhaustive search
Examples of exhaustive in a Sentence
The list was long but not exhaustive.
after an exhaustive search of our house, we still hadn't found the cat
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Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
An exhaustive in-depth investigation by The Post — okay, fine, a few conversations with staffers in Utah’s program — didn’t reveal any concrete answers to this particular riddle.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 July 2025
This exhaustive scientific work is complicated by ongoing legal and ethical concerns.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 July 2025
The project has since been through a frustrating series of fits and starts, which IndieWire previously recapped in exhaustive detail after the last major development: Disney pulling the film from its 2025 release schedule.
—Rance Collins, IndieWire, 6 July 2025
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“Exhaustive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhaustive. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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exhaustive
adjective
ex·haus·tive
ig-ˈzȯ-stiv
: trying all possibilities : thorough
an exhaustive search
exhaustively
adverb
exhaustiveness
noun
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