concise

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After a brief pause, he gave a concise answer: "They have to be flawless."

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

More recently, he has been pushing a concise campaign message — “Back to Basics” — and launched a nonprofit policy organization by the same name to promote his ideas statewide.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

In turn, each player makes a distinct statement, yet these are concise and never without context; they sound less like solos than smart, overlapping dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

What a perfectly concise symbol of rampant hyper-consumerism meeting our new-age, tech-fueled naivete, and all in service of the ardent belief that this material-obsessed lifestyle is the correct one.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025

On January 15, 1934, the journal Physical Review published a very concise abstract of a presentation that had been conducted by Zwicky and Baade the previous month at Stanford University.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson