comprehensive

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You have one week to prepare a comprehensive report on why the initiative is failing.

Rudy and Tommy were given another comprehensive drill session while the others went inside to learn tactics.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Morris's website described his company as "a boutique law firm focusing on the comprehensive needs of high-net-worth individuals."  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

The figures above, compiled by Charles Stenger, PhD, in a comprehensive study of POW statistics for the Veterans Administration, appear to be definitive.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Black Sam, as he was commonly called, from his being about three shades blacker than any other son of ebony on the place, was revolving the matter profoundly in all its phases and bearings, with a comprehensiveness of vision and a strict lookout to his own personal well-being, that would have done credit to any white patriot in Washington.†  (source) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

Root spat out the butt of his cigar, squashing it comprehensively beneath his boot heel.†  (source) Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 2001

On his spice shelves was a compendium of the world's predilections and in his cooler a comprehensive survey of birds and beasts hanging from hooks by their feet.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously than prescience, and the short-sighted effect more than the far-seeing; that limitation, and not comprehensiveness, is needed for striking a blow.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874

So what's the point of framing rules that cannot be comprehensively carried out by anyone?†  (source) Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor, 2007

As an advocate for comprehensive sex education and support for women, [I want to say] your experiment definitely opened the eyes for many concerning this issue.  (source) Gaby Rodriguez, The Pregnancy Project, 2013

The chief merit of general ideas is, that they enable the human mind to pass a rapid judgment on a great many objects at once; but, on the other hand, the notions they convey are never otherwise than incomplete, and they always cause the mind to lose as much in accuracy as it gains in comprehensiveness.†  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 2, 1840

Then she cursed me comprehensively, my eyes, my mouth, every member of my body, and it was like a dream in the large unfurnished room with the candles flickering and this red-eyed wild-haired stranger who was my wife shouting obscenities at me.†  (source) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966

I don't know how to put all of what we've seen and done together into one comprehensive something that will make sense to anyone but me.  (source) Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places, 2016