cryptic

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At such moments, Marvin, a notably unemotive and cryptic actor, is less impressive than ineffectual.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

While the cryptic video confirmed the beef, Cooper still didn’t offer any explanation as to what initially caused the turmoil between them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

The claimants had a leaked "ledger" of Associated Newspaper payments, invoices from some private investigators and extracts from reporters notepads with cryptic handwritten details of payments to sources.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Her concurrence is too cryptic, though, to be of much use to lower courts trying to make sense of Gorsuch’s maximalist rhetoric.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

The world’s greatest biological thinkers, having pored over the problem of heredity, had scarcely advanced the field beyond the cryptic musings of two men who had lived on two Greek islands two thousand years earlier.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee