all-embracing
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of all-embracing
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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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
"The great all-embracing, absolute Armistice, the end of the world!" he said.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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