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Or as Hedges compendiously described it: “It’s a memory play told from the perspective of the grandson about his grandmother, who loses her ability to remember things.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2018

Taraknath Das,* in his book India in World Politics,� apart from comment on the British Raj which is neither equitable, honest nor impartial, sums up compendiously the aspiration of the Swaraj.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now compendiously abridged, and made of more use; with very considerable Improvements.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel

The cursory treatment of this Elfin criterion will now compendiously place before the reader, as much illustration of the two above-given heads as we dare impose upon him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

Jubal in short originates what we now compendiously describe as the Fine Arts.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus