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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James Raia, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Apply The Power Law To Data Integrity Many health plan leaders understand the value of high-quality data but get trapped in exhaustive, low-yield clean-up efforts.
—Charles Wong, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Did the state ask for exhaustive project revisions and clarifications?
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
So, what may be needed is a more exhaustive look at the Columbian mammoths that remained further north, where DNA is more likely to have survived the millennia since their extinction.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Exhaustive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhaustive. Accessed 11 Sep. 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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