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Example Sentences

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Halliday: Getting to watch her was truly a privilege because she is so knowledgeable, she is an encyclopedia when it comes to this world and when it comes to Gilead and these characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

As a child, he came across a page in an encyclopedia featuring Neil Armstrong and the picture of an astronaut on the Moon from the 1969 Apollo mission.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

To say that “On the Altar” functions more like an encyclopedia than a monograph may sound like criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

A hallucinating encyclopedia may not be exactly what you’re looking for when you’re doing research, but that’s what writer Stephen Harrison found when he dug into Elon Musk’s new A.I.-powered Grokipedia.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2025

I was told to ask for Dave Mengle because he had walked large parts of the trail himself and was something of an encyclopedia of outdoor knowledge.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson