compendious

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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

Suketu Mehta's compendious narrative of Bombay low-life, Maximum City, had been a critical and commercial success.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013

The long, foamy whites,—the short, glossy blacks whose hue was deeper than that of the raven’s wing,—were tied into bundles with twine from my compendious haversack.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)