comprehensive
adjective
of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive.
comprehensives
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pluralof comprehensive.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Look, CSU and all regional comprehensives in this country have a budget problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
According to Ofqual figures, in 2019 there was a 24 percentage point gap between independent schools and comprehensives in A* and A grades at A-level - this year it has risen to 31 percentage points.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2021
From BASIS’s first year in 1996-1997, students who failed the comprehensives had to retake them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2019
Then, in the mid-1960s, the Labour government sped up their conversion into comprehensives.
From Economist ● Aug. 11, 2016
They divorced in 1967, and she taught English at a succession of inner London comprehensives.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2013
