concise

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“We really have to think about speaking eloquently, being concise, all those things, because we don’t get a second take,” Gellar said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

He added: "Short form content is helpful in giving a useful but concise insight into different books, which is why it is a good way to form a reading habit"

From BBC • Feb. 8, 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

A man of few words, Mendel was even more concise in his writing: he had distilled nearly a decade’s work into forty-four spectacularly dreary pages.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee