COMPREHENSIVELY Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

comprehensively

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as in systematically

with attention to all aspects or details no period in American history has been as comprehensively studied as the Civil War

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Recent Examples of comprehensively Africa has around 2,000 languages but very few are represented comprehensively in AI models, said academics on The Conversation. — Will Barker, TheWeek, 22 Oct. 2026 On Wednesday, the mood was gleefully electric as Atlanta comprehensively dismantled their opponents to take control of the series. — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026 La Cinquecento has comprehensively reworked the little Italian icon into something collectors will line up over. — New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026 The court found the federal Pipeline Safety Act comprehensively regulates interstate pipeline safety, meaning individual states cannot interfere with or override federal authority on these operations. — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Tanook Hines also had a TD reception, and freshman Kayden Dixon-Wyatt had six catches for 102 yards as the Trojans (2-0) followed up their Week 0 win over San Jose State by comprehensively dominating the Bulldogs (0-1). — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026 Hull City Hull City 2 Manchester United 0 This wasn’t in the script — Manchester United comprehensively beaten by everyone’s favourites to go down and Oli McBurnie, Hull’s bearded genius, running the show. — Stuart James, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 As growth continues expanding south of Orlando, communities have the chance to be planned comprehensively rather than pieced together over time. — Justin Onorato, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026 Consumer browsers aren’t designed to comprehensively enforce security on all the actions a user might take. — Mazy Dar, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

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Police arrested him again in April 2023 and started combing through the forest more systematically and exhuming mass graves.

— Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
The Embodied Neurocomputation Framework treats this as an engineering problem, systematically optimizing information entering the neural network.

— Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026

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