exhausting vs. exhaustive
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In a physics paper I recently read for work, the German authors mixed up the words exhaustive and exhausting. Contrary to good scientific practice, I will not provide a reference in order to give them some anonymity. The sentence that made me chuckle and motivated this post was “For exhausting discussions concerning the […] methods