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compendium

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhm] / kəmˈpɛn di əm /


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Speaking afterwards, Swayne told the BBC, Hilaire Belloc's cautionary tales were his "favourite reading and a compendium of wisdom".

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Our critic said that most of the show “is devoted to works made between 1951 and 1966, offering a compendium of wide-ranging approaches and occasional surprises.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

The release of “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run” is accompanied by a new compendium of standout tracks by McCartney and Wings.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2025

Those writings, discovered in her New York City apartment after she died in her Alabama hometown nine years ago, have been gathered into the welcome hybrid compendium “The Land of Sweet Forever.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 21, 2025

There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

There is a large number of small treatises and compendia of Florentine history of the guide-book description.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Popular Bachardy books like “Hollywood” and “Stars in My Eyes” are compendiums of many of those movie star drawings, and lots of them are very good.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2025

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

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

Its probable origin is Indian; Indian story compendiums too have a fondness for frame stories, for Russian doll-style stories within stories, and for animal fables.

From New York Times May 24, 2021

These are all counted in later Vais'e@sika commentaries and compendiums.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta




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