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The smaller partner should have this capability because actual breakout will most probably occur when the US is engrossed with a crisis elsewhere, be it Venezuela, the South China Sea islands, Taiwan, Ukraine or an interregnum.

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Never in recent history has the world been so engrossed by the most mundane stages of the scientific process.

A 2018 study suggested that mindfulness can help elite athletes achieve a flow state, the zone where body and mind are in sync and engrossed in the action being performed.

She became engrossed in whether mother trees recognize their offspring in forest networks when she became a mother of two daughters.

She rejects reductive analyses for a rich debate that will engross any avid reader.

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The highest themes which can elevate or engross the mind of man claimed her profound and delighted reveries.

I stumbled to her side, half-blinded, stood looking down at the scene which seemed to engross her.

Besides, the immediate pressure of our adventurer's own affairs was such as exclusively to engross his attention.

I do not think that I am less impatient now than formerly to repossess—to entirely engross—my own treasured love.

The interests of a moment engross and captivate the passions, and kindle ardours which burn with incessant vigour.

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On this page you'll find 88 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to engross, such as: bewitch, captivate, enrapture, enthrall, fascinate, and immerse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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