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- adjective That
consumes everything; thatuses everything up. - adjective Totally
engrossing , using up all of one'stime andenergy .
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Examples
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Few of the people we admire spent their lives toiling soundlessly as spokes in an all-consuming wheel.
Wale Oyejide: Were You Hoping for a Miracle? Wale Oyejide 2011
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Few of the people we admire spent their lives toiling soundlessly as spokes in an all-consuming wheel.
Wale Oyejide: Were You Hoping for a Miracle? Wale Oyejide 2011
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My dedication to my students is all-consuming and unconditional.
Teach Plus: Teachers At the Table With Secretary Duncan Teach Plus 2012
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As usual, I dive into this venture with a great and all-consuming fervor, ignoring completely how I'm no music critic by training and instead opening wide to 25+ years of serious music obsessiveness; couple it with a bottle of premium sake and ignore all overwhelming meta Top 10 lists like this one, and it's all sorts of delightful.
Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2011 Mark Morford 2011
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My dedication to my students is all-consuming and unconditional.
Teach Plus: Teachers At the Table With Secretary Duncan Teach Plus 2012
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My dedication to my students is all-consuming and unconditional.
Teach Plus: Teachers At the Table With Secretary Duncan Teach Plus 2012
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It's weird because when you're working on the show, it's so all-consuming that my main memory of it is everyone talking comedy and writing and just the whole intensity of it.
Avital Binshtock: The Real Debbie Downer: An Interview With SNL's Rachel Dratch Avital Binshtock 2011
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It's weird because when you're working on the show, it's so all-consuming that my main memory of it is everyone talking comedy and writing and just the whole intensity of it.
Avital Binshtock: The Real Debbie Downer: An Interview With SNL's Rachel Dratch Avital Binshtock 2011
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And TV itself is driven by an engine of all-consuming self-improvement.
Why Absolutely Fabulous now looks absolutely prescient | Paul Flynn 2011
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Few of the people we admire spent their lives toiling soundlessly as spokes in an all-consuming wheel.
Wale Oyejide: Were You Hoping for a Miracle? Wale Oyejide 2011
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