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

Sony’s new set is one of the most compendious efforts at archival excavation that the major labels have yet offered.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 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

It has heretofore been noted that, in 1821, when he marked out for himself his first formal plan of study, he included "the compendious history of North America" as one of the subjects.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston