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all-encompassing

Definitions

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  • adjective including everything; universal

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  • adjective broad in scope or content

Etymologies

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all + encompassing

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Examples

  • Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of a relatively all-encompassing “single” global market, global sightings of the word FREE are continuously on the rise.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of a relatively all-encompassing “single” global market, global sightings of the word FREE are continuously on the rise.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • This provides a basic ground of awareness that is an all-encompassing wisdom.

    C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011

  • To describe it as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle: it's an all-encompassing sensory vortex of incense and Mughal tents, live music and colorful banners, sweaty crowds by day and gyrating dancers by night, with the attendant notes of gasoline, burning dung, incessant honking, and tinkling bangle-bracelets that permeate life everywhere in India.

    Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012

  • This provides a basic ground of awareness that is an all-encompassing wisdom.

    C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011

  • Police officer Mohammad Shakir told the AP outside the base that two suicide bombers were involved in the attack and were apparently wearing burqas, the all-encompassing turquoise-colored coverings worn by many women in Afghanistan.

    NATO forces repel attack on Kabul base 2011

  • To describe it as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle: it's an all-encompassing sensory vortex of incense and Mughal tents, live music and colorful banners, sweaty crowds by day and gyrating dancers by night, with the attendant notes of gasoline, burning dung, incessant honking, and tinkling bangle-bracelets that permeate life everywhere in India.

    Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012

  • To describe it as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle: it's an all-encompassing sensory vortex of incense and Mughal tents, live music and colorful banners, sweaty crowds by day and gyrating dancers by night, with the attendant notes of gasoline, burning dung, incessant honking, and tinkling bangle-bracelets that permeate life everywhere in India.

    Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012

  • To describe it as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle: it's an all-encompassing sensory vortex of incense and Mughal tents, live music and colorful banners, sweaty crowds by day and gyrating dancers by night, with the attendant notes of gasoline, burning dung, incessant honking, and tinkling bangle-bracelets that permeate life everywhere in India.

    Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012

  • To describe it as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle: it's an all-encompassing sensory vortex of incense and Mughal tents, live music and colorful banners, sweaty crowds by day and gyrating dancers by night, with the attendant notes of gasoline, burning dung, incessant honking, and tinkling bangle-bracelets that permeate life everywhere in India.

    Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012

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