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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The darkness around here can feel all-consuming. Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 Whatever the spinoff turns out to be, the Duffers will no longer have the all-consuming jobs of being its showrunners. Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025 The all-consuming totality of the Julia Roberts phenomenon was well-earned. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 Just imagine it—you’d abruptly awaken in the darkness, a blackness that’s so all-consuming that your eyes could never adjust beneath the earth’s chill frost line. Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 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 28 Oct. 2025.

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