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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

They seem intended, rather, to deliver an illusion of thoroughness, of completeness, of spectacular exhaustiveness, that no individual image suggests on its own.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 28, 2018

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

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

Yet we must not expect this scope of speculation in us to go with adequacy or exhaustiveness: on the contrary, mathematics and religion, each in its way so sure, leave most of the truth out.

From Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays by Santayana, George