all-encompassing
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“I had to devote my whole self to it. It was so all-encompassing that I could think of nothing else.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
There’s no all-encompassing federal law regulating the use of biometrics, and many state laws also fall short, says Adam Schwartz, privacy litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on privacy rights.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 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, perhaps more important to market health, Friday’s rally was all-encompassing.
From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025
Zola himself also embarked upon a project as vast and all-encompassing as Wagner’s Ring, a twenty-book epic called Les Rougon-Macquart, which follows the fortunes of a family living in mid-nineteenth-century France.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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