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
What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013
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
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