The trouble today is that few such causes of delay are taken up with the people concerned; "there is a war on" provides the usual all-embracing excuse.
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All-embracing
Synonyms for "all-embracing" (81 found)
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9 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- kaikenkattava adj (Translations)
German
1 entries- allumfassend adj (Translations)
Spanish
4 entries- omniabarcador adj (Translations)
- omniabarcante adj (Translations)
- omnicomprensivo adj (Translations)
- omnienglobante adj (Translations)
Ukrainian
2 entries- всеося́жний adj (Translations)
- всеохо́плюючий adj (Translations)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time.
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[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.
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