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all-embracing

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










ADJECTIVE
international
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK










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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

They belong to the all-embracing culture of the internet, which for them turns out to be a confounding Tower of Babel.

From New York Times Nov. 15, 2018

For her the drums were not an all-embracing rope of fellowship, discipline and transcendence.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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