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all-embracing

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










ADJECTIVE
international
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK










Example Sentences

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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

“I successfully and independently led a company that gradually expanded into sectors beyond fashion to offer my all-embracing philosophy of lifestyle,” he says.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

Before the last silence, with birdcalls in the woodwinds, there is a spell of absolute fulfillment, of all-embracing spiritual warmth.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2019

This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry