cryptic
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But when Google sent him a cryptic, legalistic email in early 2020 notifying him that the police were demanding access to some of his data, he was alarmed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak have pinpointed a winter night in 2016 as the turning point, when the justices “issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling” on Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
That they did so in a cryptic one-paragraph ruling was, in Kagan’s words at the time, “unprecedented.”
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
He punctuated a day of conflicting messaging with a cryptic social media post: “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
We push messages under each other’s doors, written in the cryptic language of the aliens, which is filled with x’s and Z’s and must be decoded.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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