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compendium

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhm] / kəmˈpɛn di əm /


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Here’s a brief compendium of some of those appearances, forgotten or well-remembered, in series short- or long-lived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

“Bury Me Already” throws a sudden cross-country move, a pregnancy, a pandemic and a few other life-changing events into the mix in her latest compendium of long-form stories, stick-figure sketches, and three-panel gags.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Our critic said that most of the show “is devoted to works made between 1951 and 1966, offering a compendium of wide-ranging approaches and occasional surprises.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Whereas “Lover Tofu Fruit” wound up laden with session songs Day never liked in the first place, her new record is an intricate compendium she stands by from start to finish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

One day I hope to write a compendium of all my cures, including those Elnora taught me.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The sequel is tentatively titled “Filthy Healthy Cravings”: a compromise, perhaps, between recent salad-centric compendia and the permissive indulgence of Chrissy Teigen’s cookbooks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018

“Legal compendia are among the foundational reference works in every civilization.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

They should have, he argues, and to demonstrate that he is perfectly serious, Fussell goes through the Handbook, with meticulous care before concluding that it is a "compendia of good sense".

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

Thank Naxos Records for its compendia of Barber’s orchestral music and of Schuman’s symphonies, both timed to coincide with the centenaries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2011

What dryly philosophical compendia are the notes of Machiavelli upon the French Court and Cesare Borgia!

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

The effect of these two compendiums is to take us back to Wilde himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

That’s because the company’s giant color compendiums originate at least in part from ornithology and natural history.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023

There have been plenty of Academy annals before, of course: detailed compendiums, official and not; glossy adornments for the coffee table; and at least one prose investigation of its increasingly byzantine fashion system.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

Many of them showed up in more than 40 books and other published work that included compendiums of one-liners and magician stage banter.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

The perusal of compendiums of history, even if such are available, is the employment of leisure, and the composition of essays as a business once entered upon, there is no leisure.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith




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