compendium
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Most of “The Women” is devoted to works made between 1951 and 1966, offering a compendium of wide-ranging approaches and occasional surprises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 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
“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
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
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
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
Popular Bachardy books like “Hollywood” and “Stars in My Eyes” are compendiums of many of those movie star drawings, and lots of them are very good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
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
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 book, Kimber’s fourth, is slender compared to some of the frankly overstuffed compendiums you see these days, and for that, I am grateful.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2020
From the late Prince Ito's grossly misleading Commentary on the Japanese Constitution down to school compendiums, the absurd dates are everywhere insisted upon.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
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