encyclopedia

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Indeed, what Adler has provided is a guide to cooking intuition — an encyclopedia of what to do with herb stems, lingering falafel and extra sardines.

From Salon

“It’s really about building an encyclopedia of knowledge of the human and nonhuman primate brain,” Lee said.

From Seattle Times

He was, she said, Puerto Rico’s living version of Larousse Gastronomique, the culinary encyclopedia.

From New York Times

The word “encyclopedia” — not classical Greek, but a 16th-century coining — implies “learning in the round,” but what this might mean will be forever in flux.

From Washington Post

The type of AI behind chat bots learns how to do its job by digesting enormous amounts of information available online: encyclopedias, academic journals and also social media.

From Washington Post