exhaustive
adjective
ex·haus·tive
ig-ˈzȯ-stiv 
: including all possibilities : thorough
conducted an exhaustive search
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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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In November 2022, after an exhaustive search, Gabe’s partial remains were found in two parts of Amador County, about 10 miles apart.
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Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024
Like many computational problems, function inversion can be solved by exhaustive search.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
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Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024
Like many computational problems, function inversion can be solved by exhaustive search.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
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“Exhaustive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhaustive. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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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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