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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

Whereas “Lover Tofu Fruit” wound up laden with session songs Day never liked in the first place, her new record is an intricate compendium she stands by from start to finish.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 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

Corporate earnings calls provide a mixed picture similar to the Fed’s Beige Book, the compendium of anecdotes from the 12 district banks prepared for the Oct. 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Boockvar says.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

The English Dancing Master, John Playford’s compendium of catchy regional folk songs and dances, was the most successful musical publication of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

The second volume contains minor works which are the barest compendia of facts taken from well-known sources.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

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

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

In front of a bookcase, her familiar blond bob is crowned with two multivolume catalogues raisonnés — scholarly compendiums of two other favorite artists, Edward Ruscha and John Baldessari.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2022

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 majority of compendiums can be distinguished from each other only by the kind of paper, printing, the name of the publisher or bookseller, or by arbitrary changes in the arrangement and execution.

From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett




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