compendium

Something of the same process holds with the short stories collected in “20 Over 60,” a beguiling if uneven compendium of pieces written by 20 authors in their later years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The Whole Earth Catalog, founded by writer and editor Stewart Brand, promoted ecological knowledge and self-sufficiency, but was still a compendium of things to buy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Inside the Owner’s Box” is partly a memoir of purchasing his hometown team, partly a compendium of his interviews with other sports executives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

About 65,000 people were in ICE detention as of 30 November 2025, according to data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse's Immigration project, a compendium of government data from Syracuse University.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

Just inside, a note identifying the publisher as R. L. Polk & Co, the name everyone uses when they talk about the compendium of businesses and people.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

The sequel is tentatively titled “Filthy Healthy Cravings”: a compromise, perhaps, between recent salad-centric compendia and the permissive indulgence of Chrissy Teigen’s cookbooks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018

“Legal compendia are among the foundational reference works in every civilization.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

They should have, he argues, and to demonstrate that he is perfectly serious, Fussell goes through the Handbook, with meticulous care before concluding that it is a "compendia of good sense".

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

Thank Naxos Records for its compendia of Barber’s orchestral music and of Schuman’s symphonies, both timed to coincide with the centenaries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2011

Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one. :war dialer: /n./

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Eric S. Raymond

The effect of these two compendiums is to take us back to Wilde himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

That’s because the company’s giant color compendiums originate at least in part from ornithology and natural history.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023

Many of them showed up in more than 40 books and other published work that included compendiums of one-liners and magician stage banter.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

Growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., in the late ’70s and early ’80s, the son of an artist father and homemaker mother, Maggio was fascinated by his parents’ compendiums of Life magazines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

Who can find these in our compendiums? they must be dug—and dry work it is—out of profounder histories, or found, with greater pleasure, in poems like that of Chaucer.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee