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

A compendious architectural history of these little known buildings, the book is also a document of a singular artistic and intellectual society in formation.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2015

What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013

This summing up is not a generalization or compendious statement of the commands of God; it signifies their reduction to a fundamental principle.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.