compendium
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“Inside the Owner’s Box” is partly a memoir of purchasing his hometown team, partly a compendium of his interviews with other sports executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo also warned Berk that if she does push for the immediate preliminary hearing, she may not have access to the entire compendium of evidence before May 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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. 8, 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
One day I hope to write a compendium of all my cures, including those Elnora taught me.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
What dryly philosophical compendia are the notes of Machiavelli upon the French Court and Cesare Borgia!
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
The effect of these two compendiums is to take us back to Wilde himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Many of them showed up in more than 40 books and other published work that included compendiums of one-liners and magician stage banter.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
How can the larger historical works, biographies, and compendiums of history be used in the high school?
From A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation by Calvin Olin Davis
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