encyclopedic
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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
She was hired as the first curator exclusively devoted to such art in any encyclopedic American museum in 2001, a year after the DIA created a Center for African American Art.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 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
Lelia was the last person who would attempt anything even vaguely encyclopedic.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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