compendious
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The genius of Kosky’s singularly musical production is that it magically makes the orchestra itself a compendious magic flute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Another documents the founding in 1974 — by Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, Sahli Cavallero, Pamela Olin and Julia Stanley — of a compendious and still-growing register of lesbian culture called the Herstory Archives.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 16, 2017
It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances .
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 11, 2015
Each sonnet is printed on one page, while that opposite is occupied by a compendious account in prose of the subject in hand.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
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