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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
“He’s been called the Christmas devil,” said Jeff Belanger, author of “The Fright Before Christmas,” a compendium of so-called “Yuletide monsters.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025
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
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
Michael Shank has suggested that in the course of this reading Copernicus obtained a copy of the compendium of astronomical texts published by the Giunta press in Venice in 1508.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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