compendious

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In this compendious book Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Stone, an author and co-author of numerous titles, have separate but closely related agendas.

From New York Times

Michael Kinch’s The End of the Beginning gives an account both personal and compendious.

From Nature

Or as Hedges compendiously described it: “It’s a memory play told from the perspective of the grandson about his grandmother, who loses her ability to remember things.”

From Los Angeles Times

His office produced a compendious report in June called, “How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World.”

From New York Times

Joyce was well aware of his compendious cast of mind and proud to find it manifest among his children.

From New York Times