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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

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

From The New Yorker Oct. 11, 2015

He also regularly dived into Bartlett’s, the compendious anthology first published in 1855, whose 16th and 17th editions he would one day edit.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2014

It is certainly to the credit of Mill's sagacity that he did not follow his patron's example by setting aside Patristic testimony in so curt and compendious a manner140.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener




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