all-encompassing

adjective

: including everything or everyone
We're unlikely to find an all-encompassing solution.

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With an all-encompassing suite of services, Acewall Scholars collaborates closely with teachers and students, working relentlessly to enhance conventional education with strategies and methods that provide all kids with a fighting chance at success. William Jones, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025 These won’t be all-encompassing AGI models but smaller, specialized models designed for dedicated workflows. Lutz Finger, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 But since producers — genuine producers — have such all-encompassing responsibilities on films, maintaining faith even as doors slam in their faces (and working without much remuneration until relatively late in the process), their claim on the Oscar for best picture is a strong one. Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025 How did this figure of speech become a pejorative for elitist artistic and/or intellectual seclusion—something to be gotten out of or pulled down for the good of the cause, the community, or, more recently, the all-encompassing market? Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for all-encompassing 

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“All-encompassing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-encompassing. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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