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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Football these days is so all-consuming and non-stop that there’s little space for anticipation. The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 11 June 2025 Unfortunately, that dream turned into an all-consuming obsession. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 11 June 2025 These spectacular environments and their all-consuming nature are often a form of therapy, a response to loneliness, boredom, trauma, mental illness, or religious mania–sometimes a combination. Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025 Trump’s ability to flip a switch and ease the all-consuming pressure on the global economy, at least somewhat, is probably the most blunt and effective tool in modern history to reverse any sentiment doom spiral. David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 June 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 15 Jun. 2025.

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