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[ adverb ] in an exhaustive manner

Synonyms

thoroughly

Examples

"we searched the files thoroughly"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities .

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