all-embracing

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all-embracing (not comparable)

Having a broad scope; of universal application.
- 1945 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:
  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.
- 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
  [...] 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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