all-consuming
adjective
: taking all of a person's time and attention : being the only thing a person thinks about
Her all-consuming passion was music.
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That small act might be enough to reset their nervous system, Fleischer says, and pluck them out of those all-consuming feelings of panic.
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Angela Haupt, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Maron was forced up against the limits of his own agency when it got funneled into something much bigger and all-consuming.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
When no answers appeared, the search for Amy went off the boat and toward countless possibilities — drugs, illicit romance, murder, even human trafficking — all with the aim of answering her family’s all-consuming questions.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
There is a competition going on aboard the EF team bus, outside the all-consuming competition of these three weeks.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 12 July 2025
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Angela Haupt, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Maron was forced up against the limits of his own agency when it got funneled into something much bigger and all-consuming.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
When no answers appeared, the search for Amy went off the boat and toward countless possibilities — drugs, illicit romance, murder, even human trafficking — all with the aim of answering her family’s all-consuming questions.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
There is a competition going on aboard the EF team bus, outside the all-consuming competition of these three weeks.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 12 July 2025
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“All-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-consuming. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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