compendious
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These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021
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
What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013
They are much more than this; they are the compendious expression of the art impulses of a glorious century.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)