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compendious

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhs] / kəmˈpɛn di əs /


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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 was the author of almost 90 books, the most famous of which was the compendious Churchill biography begun in the 1960s by Churchill’s son, Randolph.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2015

What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013

Arithmetic is useful though Algebra is more compendious.

From The Principles Of Secularism by Holyoake, George Jacob