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compendium

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhm] / kəmˈpɛn di əm /


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“Bury Me Already” throws a sudden cross-country move, a pregnancy, a pandemic and a few other life-changing events into the mix in her latest compendium of long-form stories, stick-figure sketches, and three-panel gags.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo also warned Berk that if she does push for the immediate preliminary hearing, she may not have access to the entire compendium of evidence before May 1.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 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. 9, 2026

Perhaps no less important, this compendium captures both the end of the Pahlavi monarchy and the start of the theocracy that still governs Iran, granting viewers an often telling glimpse of Persian society in flux.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

Beilstein is the massive German compendium in 28 volumes, listing all the organic molecules known to chemists.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Arrangement is by author or issuing body or, in the case of serials, compendia, etc., by title.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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

Both are compendiums of artful dodging and febrile rhetoric, which is what corporate lawyers produce for a living.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2023

There have been plenty of Academy annals before, of course: detailed compendiums, official and not; glossy adornments for the coffee table; and at least one prose investigation of its increasingly byzantine fashion system.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2023

Indeed, American cookbook authors focusing on non-Eurocentric recipes no longer have to be compendiums that represent the cuisine of their heritage as a whole; instead they can have diasporic nuances.

From Salon May 26, 2022

The choice pleasantries, the attacks and repartees that we find in the small compendiums of civilities, which were for the use of the unassuming citizen, are so pitiable that they will not be given here.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag




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