Sentence examples for a compendium of facts from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a compendium of facts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a collection or summary of various facts on a particular subject.
Example: "The book serves as a compendium of facts about the history of technology, providing readers with a comprehensive overview."
Alternatives: "a collection of facts" or "a summary of information".

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Your article drew together a compendium of facts to support an erroneous notion that European private equity is on its last legs.

London Labour and the London Poor was originally advertised as a "Cyclopoedia" of street life, implying that it was a compendium of facts for dipping into rather than a book to be read from cover to cover.

A candidate for "Jeopardy" or "Millionaire," though, might benefit from the site's link to the Toilet Paper Encyclopedia, a compendium of facts like where and when toilet paper made its first appearance (China, 1391), and who invented the flush toilet (nope, not Thomas Crapper, but Sir John Harington in 1596).

A compendium of facts, figures and fascinating findings about Ireland, from the southern side of Cork to the northern point of Donegal, this book takes you on a tour of the best of the sights and sounds Ireland has to offer.

This chapter is a compendium of facts, challenges and opportunities in the characterization of biomedical polymers.

So in 1954 he published a compendium of facts and records.

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Other inexplicably irresistible and uncategorisable Christmas fare includes Reggie Chamberlain-King's Weird Belfast (Blackstaff), a compendium of weird facts about a city that might rightly claim to be weirder than any other, and Mel Gooding's Art Rules!

It was solidly reported and accurate, but was a daunting compendium of facts recited on pages of unrelieved seriousness.

And for curious enjoyment, nothing beat Judith Flander's Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (HarperPress £20), which is not only a scholarly compendium of facts about the way the Victorians spent their money, but also my favourite bedside reading of 2006.

Verbosity, for example, got players to create a compendium of common-sense facts, such as "milk is white", which people know but computers do not.

In substance, a compendium of amazing and mostly horrifying facts about jellyfish, which are, apparently, taking over the world, or at least the marine portion of it.

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