engrossed
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"This is all dog content, when will the cat programme be on?" one person engrossed in the service wrote in the chatroom on PetTV's streaming page.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
For much of the summer, though, he was engrossed in something else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
Said Palmer, engrossed in preparing the program for the last eight months: “It’s time.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
“You just sat through 1,500 shots of character performance that you were completely engrossed in,” Winquist says.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
They all sat down without so much as a glance at Dimple, still engrossed in their conversation about some dude named Corey on their lacrosse team back home.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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