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compendious

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhs] / kəmˈpɛn di əs /


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The genius of Kosky’s singularly musical production is that it magically makes the orchestra itself a compendious magic flute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

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

But whoever is dissatisfied with this compendious deduction, may trace my faults to certain accidents in my early education.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary




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