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"This was the exhaustiveness of the effort," Delacourt said.

From Fox News • Mar. 4, 2019

The longer the list goes on—and it goes on a whole lot longer than I’m in a position to block-quote here, sorely tempted though I am—the more intense the mood of hysterical exhaustiveness becomes.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2018

These days, “S.N.L.” ’s sketches are studied with Talmudic exhaustiveness by outlets large and small.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2018

Their slapstick is inventive and comes with an almost encyclopedic exhaustiveness.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

Something in the exhaustiveness of her attempt fascinated Maury at first sight—a woman with wide hips affecting a panther-like litheness!

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)