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thoroughgoing

 adjective
     
thor‧ough‧go‧ing formal
1 very thorough and careful:
a thoroughgoing analysis of the data
2 [only before noun] a thoroughgoing action or quality is complete:
The programme has been a thoroughgoing success.
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