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n. - Conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task.

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  • On Thursday, details emerged that called the thoroughness of the review, described as
  • Moreover, his thoroughness is the envy of the students of all other countries, and his hatred of sham scholarship and slipshod generalization is intense.
  • There is a kind of thoroughness which is almost purely physical: the kind that signifies mechanical and exhausting drill upon all the details of a subject.
  • This was the kind of thoroughness his superiors expected of him.
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