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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
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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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