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compendious

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhs] / kəmˈpɛn di əs /


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The genius of Kosky’s singularly musical production is that it magically makes the orchestra itself a compendious magic flute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 16, 2017

The two early works by him that happily overlapped this season in major London productions are often regarded as the merely playful jeux d’esprit of a giddy lad with an insatiable and compendious mind.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2017

It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances .

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 11, 2015

His compendious and readable handbooks were famed throughout the Moslem world, as he himself boasts, from India to Morocco, and did much to popularise the scientific culture of the day.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson




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