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
What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013
Ms. Carr’s biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it’s also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2012
For a long time just such a compendious volume, with just such concisely and authoritatively written articles, has been needed....
From The Story of Malta by Ballou, Maturin Murray