Adjective… one realized that it was the restaurant's thorough and even comic Frenchness that had made it so entirely New York. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2004Bruce tells me to squat down and Koani sidles up, ears flattened, tail tucked away, and gives my face a thorough licking. Nicholas Evans, Daily Telegraph, 26 Sept. 1998The job was uncharacteristically thorough for a Russian contract killing—three different types of bullets riddled Mikho's body.New Republic, 15 Dec. 1997 a thorough understanding of the rules and regulations The investigator will have to be thorough.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has directed the Minister of Interior to oversee a thorough investigation into Amini’s death. Tara Kangarlou, Time, 19 Sep. 2022 The police department said a thorough investigation was being conducted by an outside agency and that the department’s own internal affairs unit would conduct a separate investigation. Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022 Ventosilla’s family is calling for a more thorough investigation. Tat Bellamy-walker, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2022 The story kicks off when they are forced to do a thorough investigation in the prison to save their jobs and prevent the hierarchy and drug trade from dominating the workplace within three months. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Aug. 2022 Note that not all pain actually has an identifiable cause even with thorough investigation from the healthcare provider. Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022 Joni Money said a thorough investigation determined the husband fatally shot his wife and then himself. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2022 The merger is likely to face a thorough investigation from the Biden administration’s antitrust regulators, who have taken an aggressive stand against corporate consolidation, especially in industries already dominated by a few businesses.New York Times, 28 July 2022 In May 2021, Science published the open letter from Worobey and researchers at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other leading institutions that called for a more thorough investigation. Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 See More
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Etymology
Preposition, Adjective, and Adverb
Middle English thorow, from Old English thurh, thuruh, preposition & adverb