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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Sources close to Emery felt PSG’s desperation to win the Champions League could, at times, be all-consuming.
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Mother’s little helper The urge—the desperate, frantic, all-consuming urge—to get a child to fall sleep is familiar to many parents.
—ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
Their all-consuming, boundaryless friendship is the backbone of the series, which has an admirable allergy to cancer-drama clichés.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
For some viewers with knowledge of his off-screen reputation, watching Majors radiate quiet hostility in Magazine Dreams may already make the all-consuming performance difficult to evaluate in a vacuum.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Mother’s little helper The urge—the desperate, frantic, all-consuming urge—to get a child to fall sleep is familiar to many parents.
—ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
Their all-consuming, boundaryless friendship is the backbone of the series, which has an admirable allergy to cancer-drama clichés.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
For some viewers with knowledge of his off-screen reputation, watching Majors radiate quiet hostility in Magazine Dreams may already make the all-consuming performance difficult to evaluate in a vacuum.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
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“All-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-consuming. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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