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compendious

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhs] / kəmˈpɛn di əs /


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The genius of Kosky’s singularly musical production is that it magically makes the orchestra itself a compendious magic flute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 16, 2017

It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances .

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 11, 2015

The complete institutions of which this academy had to boast, even in its outset, are described in a compendious manner by its accomplished secretary, in his work entitled the New Guide, already frequently cited.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi




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