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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

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

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

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013

They are much more than this; they are the compendious expression of the art impulses of a glorious century.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)




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