compendious

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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

He also regularly dived into Bartlett’s, the compendious anthology first published in 1855, whose 16th and 17th editions he would one day edit.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2014

Suketu Mehta's compendious narrative of Bombay low-life, Maximum City, had been a critical and commercial success.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013

A compendious French and English and English and French Dictionary, for the use of Students and Travellers.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia