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Recent Examples of comprehensiveness
Like plumbing or shoe cobbling, injecting involves an apprenticeship-type of learning, the comprehensiveness of which seems to be left to the injector.
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Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Nov. 2025
Federal economic data is considered the gold standard because of its longstanding reliability, quality, comprehensiveness, history and transparency.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Healthcare leaders, policymakers and clinicians need to insist on transparency, rigor and comprehensiveness as absolute necessities.
—Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Employer Professional Development Award—for organizations that provide outstanding continuing education as evidenced by their quality, comprehensiveness, innovation, or impact.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2019
Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Nov. 2025
Federal economic data is considered the gold standard because of its longstanding reliability, quality, comprehensiveness, history and transparency.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Healthcare leaders, policymakers and clinicians need to insist on transparency, rigor and comprehensiveness as absolute necessities.
—Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Employer Professional Development Award—for organizations that provide outstanding continuing education as evidenced by their quality, comprehensiveness, innovation, or impact.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comprehensiveness
Noun
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But Little said his clients were never contacted by the investigator, questioning the thoroughness of the review.—
Amelia Mugavero,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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The exacting, obsessive thoroughness with which Cameron has imagined this world is not an end in itself, however.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
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Keane loved Polinsky’s insistence on inclusiveness, respect for the governor down to the most obscure staffer, and zero tolerance for those disrespectful to rank-and-file workers.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
26 Jan. 2026
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This suggests long-distance interactions and cultural inclusiveness during the Tang Dynasty, according to the researchers.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The flow of deposits to less stable banks threatens the soundness of the entire financial system.—
Tyler Curtis,
Boston Herald,
20 Jan. 2026
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But these looser lending standards raise concerns of their own about the soundness of the financial system.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Comprehensiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprehensiveness. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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