cryptic

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What’s Next: A cryptic social media post by Nvidia last week fanned rumors that it will be making a chip for Windows PCs, something that could be announced at the GTC Taipei convention starting today.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma — a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.

From Salon • May 25, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

San Piedro lived and breathed by the salmon, and the cryptic places where they ran at night were the subject of perpetual conversation.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson