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 management style is famously hard-driving and all-consuming.
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Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
One of the best ways to get all-consuming anger, disappointment, and bitterness out of your head, according to both experts, is by transferring them onto paper.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 3 Feb. 2025
Pines discovered right from the beginning that working for Combs was all-consuming.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
Shrugging off physical vanity and even declining to correct strangers on their nonbinary pronouns, Gibson retreats from identity in the face of an all-consuming and transformative illness.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
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Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
One of the best ways to get all-consuming anger, disappointment, and bitterness out of your head, according to both experts, is by transferring them onto paper.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 3 Feb. 2025
Pines discovered right from the beginning that working for Combs was all-consuming.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
Shrugging off physical vanity and even declining to correct strangers on their nonbinary pronouns, Gibson retreats from identity in the face of an all-consuming and transformative illness.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
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“All-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-consuming. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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