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
Mr. Steele is also engrossed by the meltdown at the Heritage Foundation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 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
“That’s what we want to do — tell stories for people to be engrossed by and if they are engrossed, then job done.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024
And I suddenly became very conscious of the fact that we were the only people in the shop, except for the old guy behind the counter at the front engrossed in his paperwork.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing engrossed
The Great Gatsby
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"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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