compendious
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Another documents the founding in 1974 — by Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, Sahli Cavallero, Pamela Olin and Julia Stanley — of a compendious and still-growing register of lesbian culture called the Herstory Archives.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019
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
What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013
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 Lanzi, Luigi Antonio
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