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

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

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013

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