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an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
she took her comps in English literature
How To Use comprehensive examination In A Sentence
- Whether in fact these scenes are the most strongly contrasted in Plautus we do not know without comprehensive examination of all his septenarii.
- Alexis de Tocqueville's two-volume study De la democratie en Amerique, published in 1835 and 1840, made no mention of balloting procedures, despite providing an otherwise comprehensive examination of American political culture and the moeurs that sustained it.
- Perhaps the most comprehensive examination of this contemporary manifestation is being published in a traditional print format this week. Why do people hate hipsters?
