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
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)