encyclopedia
Example Sentences
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The chatbots also appeared conflicted about what role to play, shifting between acting like medical encyclopedias, life coaches and supportive friends.
"It is precisely this deliberate openness and community model that upholds the neutrality and trustworthiness essential for a global encyclopedia: no single individual, company, or agenda can exert influence over the work."
From Barron's
When his parents gave him a 10-volume encyclopedia, he read the books so often that he memorized their contents and wore off their covers.
He was about 12 when his family bought the first set of encyclopedias that he can remember.
From Los Angeles Times
For many, it is the modern-day encyclopedia—a site written and edited by volunteers that aims to offer, as Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales once said, free access to “the sum of all human knowledge.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
