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all-embracing

[awl-em-bray-sing] / ˈɔl ɛmˈbreɪ sɪŋ /










ADJECTIVE
international
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK










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Mr. Craiutu makes the case for moderation as a political ideal quite as intellectually and morally satisfying as any all-embracing ideology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Several come under the once all-embracing umbrella of the $500bn Neom mega-project.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Their numbers are hard to gauge, as there is no all-embracing definition of what constitutes one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer best expressed the imagined reach of "the Great Fear," an all-embracing dread of a fiendish conspiracy that supposedly sought to strike at the very foundations of civilized life.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2020

"The great all-embracing, absolute Armistice, the end of the world!" he said.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison




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