Absorbed
Taken up
Taken up adjective - Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
Absorbed and taken up are semantically related in busy topic. You can use "Absorbed" instead an adjective phrase "Taken up", if it concerns topics such as distracted, deeply involved with.
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Taken Up to Eleven in the sequel when Canderous turns out to be the best of the three options (the others being two Jedi, one of them who has absorbed much power from others) to tank a literal Force-Eldritch Abomination.
Source: Badass Normal / Video Games - The first third or so of Headhunters is taken up with protagonist Roger Brown ably demonstrating what a self-absorbed, misogynist prick he is, which makes it very hard to have much sympathy for him when everything starts going wrong.
Source: Asshole Victim / Literature - Asshole Victim: The first third of the book is taken up with demonstrating what a self-absorbed, misogynist prick Roger is so that you don't feel too badly about everything that happens to him over the course of the rest of the book.
Source: Literature / Headhunters
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