as in compilation
a collection of writings a book entirely devoted to poodles—a compendium of writings by breeders, trainers, and others in love with the breed

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Recent Examples of compendium This book, more think-tank report than scholarly monograph, provides a useful factual compendium of background material about Polish defense policy—although the absence of an index or a digital version remains a major obstacle to its efficient use. Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025 Terms & Conditions offers an alternately riotous and meditative compendium of the Black experience. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025 Here’s a compendium of what corporations have specifically said about their experiences. Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025 This compendium showed not only running domestic animals (dogs and cats, cows and pigs) but also a bison, a deer, an elephant, and a tiger, as well as a running ostrich and a flying parrot. IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2019 See All Example Sentences for compendium
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  • New Music Latin is a compilation of the best new Latin songs and albums recommended by Billboard and Billboard Español editors.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Thus began a search for other gravestone recipes, and eventually this book, a moving compilation of the recipes that defined lives and dinner tables.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • Ecco’s 2015 anthology of Jorie Graham’s poetry and that doorstopper of Louise Glück’s poetry FSG put out in 2012 also mean a lot to me.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In 2024, Netflix announced that Hunnam would star as Gein in season 3 of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Monster.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025

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