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all-encompassing

[awl-en-kuhm-puh-sing] / ˈɔl ɛnˈkʌm pə sɪŋ /










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Organizers explain the rooms are meant to be an escape from that all-encompassing world.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

The recent pressure on the software sector also has hammered shares of alternative asset managers, an all-encompassing term for firms that invest in untraditional assets.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

What made Mumbai's tryst with Art Deco particularly interesting was how the city embraced its hallmarks in a truly all-encompassing manner.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

But when I spoke to the manager about the all-encompassing audio abuse to which employees were subjected, she explained that it was “corporate’s” decision to play the music at this volume, not hers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Single- handedly he turned it from genteel, ignorable after-dinner entertainment into an all-encompassing emotional experience, a way of perceiving life as a mighty struggle, the cry of the soul, the voice of conscience.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall