encyclopedic

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Hundreds of watches, an encyclopedic knowledge of the movie and its production, a worn-out DVD copy hanging on by a thread, and a whole career later, I still owe it everything.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

Expansion, he said, is important for an encyclopedic museum, responsible for chronicling art history across many genres, geographies and media.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

In some ways, we see, early national museums anticipated fairs’ encyclopedic ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

The noted Roman naturalist and historian was indeed an early expert in fermentation, yet he also wrote about “sal ammoniac” — yes, smelling salts — in his encyclopedic work “Natural History,” published in 79 A.D.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

Moreover, its encyclopedic Yearbook for 1952, which was devoted to insects, contained only one short paragraph on the fire ant out of its half-million words of text.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson