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Exhaustive

/ɪˈɡzɔstɪv/
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(adj) Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.

The police undertook exhaustive searches but failed to find the body.
This list is not exhaustive.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The researchers conducted an ____ search for all possible literature on the subject.

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