as in compilation
a collection of writings
in the library I discovered a three-volume collectanea containing all of the author's known writings
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Noun
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To demonstrate the issue during his public comment, Lamb held an iPad to the microphone and played a nearly minute-long compilation video he’d filmed of cars driving around the streets of Charlotte with popping and grating sounds.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
1 June 2026 -
Part of their recent funding came in the form of a compilation album produced by War Child Records.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
31 May 2026
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Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Studying the history of the Winkie and Lord, Miller, and Muntadas’s video anthology offers us perhaps an alternative path out of our current critical doom loop.—
Jonathan Odden,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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