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all-encompassing

[ awl-en-kuhm-puh-sing ]

adjective

  1. taking in or including everything; comprehensive, universal, or all-embracing:

    The diner features an all-encompassing menu, including breakfast, brunch, lunch, snacks, cocktails, and dinner, in a range of cuisines.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of all-encompassing1

First recorded in 1800–10
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That was probably the biggest lesson I learned from YA: how to create flawed characters whose perspective still feels all-encompassing.

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It’s beautiful and sad, horrifying and tragic, all-encompassing but also supremely lonely.

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Alienation is one of those concepts that I've always been a little suspicious of because it could be so fuzzy and all-encompassing.

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The all-encompassing figure for loss reflects the reality faced by those like Christine D., for whom the destruction of her home was a financial death blow to a way of life.

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“Landslide” is an all-encompassing term that can describe any movement of rock, dirt or debris downhill.

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