pithy
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Over lunch, Rutte offered a pithy proposal that would become his go-to strategy: Give Trump a win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
"Just so devastatingly crap" was the pithy and rather brutal view of one Labour MP in touch with me.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
They would funnel information and boil down data to pithy takeaways for their superiors.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
What follows is a story told in hasty paragraphs, pithy fragments and cynical dispatches from a conspiracy theory-infested America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
“I will keep my remarks brief and pithy, for that is the Swanburne way. To all of you I say: ‘Welcome!’
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Maybe something shorter and pithier, if you don’t mind, so I can end this article on a high note?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
This edge looks rather delicate, I think — and I first learned it as the traditional edging style for the classic pithier pastry.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2021
For now, the new initiative is called the Collaborative Fund for Women’s Safety and Dignity, although there are plans to shift to a pithier name.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
It ends by suggesting that we "shorten the dignified designation Homo sapiens to the pithier and more accurate Homo sap."
From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2018
His expression was less serene than of yore, but pithier as well as more joyful.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
Gathering together some of the anthology’s pithiest and most striking quotations, Mr. Romm’s book is an intriguing and occasionally frustrating aperitif that doesn’t fully satisfy but is nonetheless stimulating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
During the 1992 presidential primaries, one of the pithiest campaign slogans came from Democrat Paul Tsongas.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022
The pithiest answers to my questions Monday came from Mariners reliever Paul Sewald.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Section 230 versus the First Amendment One of the pithiest tech policy commentaries is a 2019 correction in The New York Times.
From The Verge ● Feb. 8, 2021
It was one of their pithiest sayings, and one of the wisest, too.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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