compendious

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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

Her new book, How to be a Victorian – sturdy, Beetonian, compendious – has bigger ambitions.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013

Of all languages, this is the most compendious in complement, and consequently fittest for courtiers and ladies....

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John