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concise

[kuhn-sahys] / kənˈsaɪs /


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Mr. Henderson is a research fellow with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

“There is no hard and fast rule on number of reiterations needed to produce retention. Concise, vividly phrased messages that employ parallelism and alliteration are more readily remembered.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Concise and evocative as a haiku, it runs only 25 minutes, and the songs, including “You’re a Mean One,” became instant classics.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2020

Concise biography from the people at the Hubble Space Telescope.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The work projected by Webster was "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, comprising an Easy, Concise, and Systematic Method of Education, designed for the Use of English Schools in America."

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.




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