encyclopedic

Example Sentences

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It was a niche Petrou dominated with her encyclopedic knowledge and astonishing facility with banking-world arcana.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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

Rubin’s skills, former colleagues say, included an encyclopedic recall, the ability to explain his bets in plain English and a high threshold for risk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

Consider these examples, which are by no means encyclopedic.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2025

They have an encyclopedic understanding of their opponents: how they like to race, when they are likely to start sprinting, when they like to lie in wait.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown