bibliography

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Recent Examples of bibliography During a demonstration, an OpenAI employee showed how the software could automatically find and incorporate relevant scientific literature, then format the bibliography. — ArsTechnica, 29 Jan. 2026 The funniest part of BookTok fame has been seeing fans discover how extensive her bibliography is. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025 Hilton Als, a staff writer who has written about Baldwin many times, joined us to share a few essential entries from Baldwin’s bibliography. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025 Like Tolstoy, John Steinbeck’s bibliography is chockablock with classics worth a read. — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bibliography
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  1. index
  2. compendium
  3. glossary
  4. compilation
  5. list
  6. docket
  7. directory
  8. inventory
Noun
  • If those gains survive the waning months of 2026, all three indexes would post their fourth consecutive year of gains.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The rise lifted some components of the index into overbought territory, as measured by the relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator that tracks the speed and size of price changes.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of index
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  • Off Ramp is many things—a useful compendium of research on polarization and political violence, a candid memoir of Cox’s uneven attempts at peacemaking, a practical handbook for Americans who want to rediscover how to live with one another.
    — McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
  • While Hubble can only make out stars in Andromeda that are brighter than our sun, these two surveys still gave Wainer and colleagues a compendium of 200 million stars, covering two-thirds of Andromeda's disk.
    — Rahul Rao, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of compendium
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  • Many of them supplement the text with photographs, epigraphs, glossaries, family trees, sketches, timelines, variant tables of contents, alternating fonts and notes to the reader.
    — Christopher Coffman, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Regulations forced enterprises to spend massive amounts of capital and resources mapping out technical metadata, business glossaries, taxonomies, ontologies and data lineage.
    — Barney Krishnan, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • The compilation returns to multiple rankings across the Atlantic and even scores the singer-songwriter her first leader on one tally.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Many of the songs on this album are shared among other Parton projects — hits compilations and studio albums.
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of compilation
Noun
  • For those feeling grim about Milwaukee’s local music scene post-The Garage’s closure and no-play list fallout, look no further for artist solidarity than the library.
    — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The offer spans several bucket-list destinations, including Antarctica, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, the Galápagos, and more.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of list
Noun
  • His district takes a median of 29 days to close a case and has cleared nearly 80% of its habeas docket.
    — Carla Astudillo, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The case was referred to a mental health docket, with treatment ordered in lieu of conviction.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of docket
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  • Because most of the unredacted logs listed only the officers’ initials, reporters spent weeks scouring agencies’ websites, city staff directories, statewide badge registries and news articles to reveal the officers’ identities.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Signage is pretty minimal, but navigating with the help of Google Maps or the free Prospect Park App, which includes a map and a directory, is easy.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of directory
Noun
  • Hence, retail traders will gain a cheaper and more precise way to speculate on crude, but production, consumption, inventories and geopolitics will remain the dominant forces setting prices.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Long maintenance periods can reduce the number of submarines available for deployments even when the vessels remain counted in the fleet’s overall inventory.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of inventory

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