encyclopedia
noun
en·cy·clo·pe·dia
in-ˌsī-klə-ˈpē-dē-ə 
: a work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject
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Several information experts said that Mr. Trump’s executive orders have authoritarian overtones, reminiscent of when Russia cloned Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, and stripped it of unflattering material.
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Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The online encyclopedia is grappling with rising costs from bots scraping its articles to train AI models, which is straining the site’s bandwidth.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
For over 20 years, Wikipedia has been a free encyclopedia for everyone on the internet.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2025
While a recession indicator entry was added to the digital culture encyclopedia Know Your Meme only this month, the jokes have tracked back to at least 2019.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
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Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The online encyclopedia is grappling with rising costs from bots scraping its articles to train AI models, which is straining the site’s bandwidth.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
For over 20 years, Wikipedia has been a free encyclopedia for everyone on the internet.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2025
While a recession indicator entry was added to the digital culture encyclopedia Know Your Meme only this month, the jokes have tracked back to at least 2019.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Encyclopedia.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encyclopedia. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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