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Recent Examples of breviary Books of Hours are breviaries, or a selection of prayers and psalms taken from long prayer books used by monks. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020 In the breviary-like Logia of Yeshua, Davenport and his coauthor, Benjamin Urrutia, assembled everything reportedly spoken by Jesus. Michael Dirda, National Review, 25 July 2019
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Noun
  • The Cybertruck, according to the autopsy summary, caught fire and fully burned.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rabelais points out that there are oddities in the world that cannot fit into any classification scheme, more things in our heaven and earth than are dreamt of in either the medieval pretensions of the summa or the ambitious early modern bibliographic machines.
    Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The stage was set for the Fourth, whose five movements add up to a summa of Bartók’s art, by turns tenaciously labored, sinuously swirling, nocturnally eerie, pizzicato-punchy, and flat-out wild.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Simon planned the cabin, drawing the outline for the walls with a stick in the dirt.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2025
  • His executive orders signed this week outline a sweeping agenda, from declaring an invasion at the border to ending birthright citizenship.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025

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