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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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Recent Examples of encyclopedia
Yesterday was Wikipedia Day, celebrating the first edit made to the online encyclopedia on January 15, 2001.
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Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2025
Although that would probably technically be an encyclopedia.
—Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History is a go-to source for understanding what ancient Romans believed about the world and the model for every encyclopedia since.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2025
Olbermann, a baseball encyclopedia with a sense of humor, was the perfect host.
—Paul Sullivan, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025
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Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2025
Although that would probably technically be an encyclopedia.
—Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History is a go-to source for understanding what ancient Romans believed about the world and the model for every encyclopedia since.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2025
Olbermann, a baseball encyclopedia with a sense of humor, was the perfect host.
—Paul Sullivan, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encyclopedia
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The term is not recognized in standard dictionaries and appears to be a neologism coined by Trump.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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To arrive at this finding, Berthet and other researchers first built a comprehensive ‘dictionary’ of bonobo calls.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
3 Apr. 2025
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And though critics such as Zachary may not be a fan of the musician’s catalog, a lot of other people are; all five of the aforementioned LPs reached the top 5 of the Billboard 200, while nine songs spread out across those albums have charted in the Billboard Hot 100‘s top 10.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
7 Apr. 2025
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The GameCube is one of my absolute favorite game consoles and fans like me have been waiting for Nintendo to finally add it to the growing catalog of systems included with Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions.—
David Jagneaux,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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From her searching emerges a book that might be called biography, historiography, cultural criticism, manifesto, or all of the above—a memoir, in a sense, of the internet.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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The first 5,000 dolls sold at Target in the first five days starting on April 14 will be matched by Mattel with a copy of James's I Am More Than book to a charity called Save the Children.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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In this respect, keep in mind that according to textbook theory, returns and risk should be positively correlated, not the reverse.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The textbook first thing that businesses do in response to economic uncertainty is to protect their balance sheet to hold onto as much money as possible for a rainy day down the road.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Encyclopedia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encyclopedia. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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