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 race to find and recover the officer had quickly become an all-consuming endeavor for the administration after the fighter jet was shot down on Friday.
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Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
At the same time, while acknowledging the public health impacts, Crosby pushed back on the perception that the pollution is a constant, all-consuming presence.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Love Story's critics have pointed out the bizarre nature of the all-consuming 2026 ‘trends’ based on the aesthetic taste of a famously private person—one who died tragically over 25 years ago, at that.
—Grace McCarty, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2026
If conservatism is something of an inclination or disposition, leftism of the more radical sort is a form of all-consuming identity, one that fills vacuums in otherwise empty lives and comprehensively guides behavior.
—Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
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Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
At the same time, while acknowledging the public health impacts, Crosby pushed back on the perception that the pollution is a constant, all-consuming presence.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Love Story's critics have pointed out the bizarre nature of the all-consuming 2026 ‘trends’ based on the aesthetic taste of a famously private person—one who died tragically over 25 years ago, at that.
—Grace McCarty, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2026
If conservatism is something of an inclination or disposition, leftism of the more radical sort is a form of all-consuming identity, one that fills vacuums in otherwise empty lives and comprehensively guides behavior.
—Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
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“All-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-consuming. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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