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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His back pain became all-consuming.
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
The Oscar winner stars as school bus driver Kevin McKay, who has to transport nearly two dozen kids to safety while speeding through obstacles like falling power lines, crazy wind gusts and gnarly, all-consuming flames.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The anxiety is all-consuming.
—Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
One assumes this exhibit was planned way in advance of that all-consuming conservative wave that no curator can now get out of their mind.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
The Oscar winner stars as school bus driver Kevin McKay, who has to transport nearly two dozen kids to safety while speeding through obstacles like falling power lines, crazy wind gusts and gnarly, all-consuming flames.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The anxiety is all-consuming.
—Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
One assumes this exhibit was planned way in advance of that all-consuming conservative wave that no curator can now get out of their mind.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for all-consuming
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“All-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-consuming. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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