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compendium

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhm] / kəmˈpɛn di əm /


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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

About 65,000 people were in ICE detention as of 30 November 2025, according to data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse's Immigration project, a compendium of government data from Syracuse University.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2026

Corporate earnings calls provide a mixed picture similar to the Fed’s Beige Book, the compendium of anecdotes from the 12 district banks prepared for the Oct. 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Boockvar says.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

Beilstein is the massive German compendium in 28 volumes, listing all the organic molecules known to chemists.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

They are becoming systematised and reduced into compendia.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine

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

Indeed, American cookbook authors focusing on non-Eurocentric recipes no longer have to be compendiums that represent the cuisine of their heritage as a whole; instead they can have diasporic nuances.

From Salon May 26, 2022

Studies like history, when pursued, were taken in homoeopathic doses from small compendiums; and it was adequate to know that Charlemagne lived somewhere in Europe about a thousand or so years ago.

From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene Arthur Hecker




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