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a reference work that contains information about many different subjects or a lot of information about a particular subject
The school library's encyclopedia occupied much of the bookshelf. an encyclopedia of literature
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Some encyclopedia, to have plenty of toilet paper.
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Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
Holmquist traces his devotion to history back to age 7, when his parents bought him a set of encyclopedias.
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Jim Dudlicek,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
Record Club pulls all of its data from the open-source music encyclopedia MusicBrainz.
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Terrence O'Brien,
The Verge,
23 May 2026
In the encyclopedia era, information was static and curated.
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Bruce Broussard,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
Holmquist traces his devotion to history back to age 7, when his parents bought him a set of encyclopedias.
—
Jim Dudlicek,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
Record Club pulls all of its data from the open-source music encyclopedia MusicBrainz.
—
Terrence O'Brien,
The Verge,
23 May 2026
In the encyclopedia era, information was static and curated.
—
Bruce Broussard,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The dictionary's selection came, in part, from fans' reactions to Swift and Kelce's engagement.
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The novel follows Harriet Bancroft, a bookish wallflower compiling a dictionary of slang.
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The same habits shape syllabi, theatre histories, catalogues, footnotes—the professional instinct that makes one document serious and another merely interesting.
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The move shocked snobs everywhere, who could not believe that the future Queen of England had chosen a ring from a common catalogue.
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Author Robert Wright joins The Excerpt to talk about his new book.
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But a copy of the Orlando Sentinel’s 150th anniversary book with 150 front pages from our 150 years.
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In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.
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From June of 2004 to July of 2006, as the subprime bubble was inflating, the Fed raised the interest rate 17 times consecutively – a textbook policy of monetary tightening, unprecedented at the time, which should have restrained credit creation.
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“Encyclopedia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encyclopedia. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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