compendious
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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
“The book is compendious and revelatory, a statement of the man in his own words, and I found myself knowing my father in new ways through these letters.”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
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 reader must not expect to find in it a compendious summary of the chief events in the history of ancient Greece.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various