compendious
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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
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
A compendious architectural history of these little known buildings, the book is also a document of a singular artistic and intellectual society in formation.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2015
Of all languages, this is the most compendious in complement, and consequently fittest for courtiers and ladies....
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John