terse
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Mr. Winfield, by then playing for the California Angels, issued a terse statement in front of his locker: “I’m vindicated.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In reaction to the uproar in Burkina over the national team's treatment, match organiser Eurodata Sport issued a terse statement shared online by the AFA that it had "honoured its contractual commitments".
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Supreme Court’s terse order agreed on both points.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
The minutes were shorter but not as terse as some economists feared, though some of the description of the discussions seemed truncated.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
“A bad year for ice” was the terse description Shackleton heard over and over.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Not exactly a warm embrace of the new Warsh Fed: terser “just the facts” statements, shorter news conferences, no forward guidance, and a no-nonsense message that there’s a new sheriff in town.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, whom I asked separately, had a terser response: “I’m gonna leave that to the medics.”
From Slate ● May 16, 2023
Some of his friends noticed a change in his writing style — a change that one scholar later described as a departure from “sustained argument and prolonged reflection” to a terser “telegram style.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
Sherman used a similar metaphor, but terser: “I feel like I’m starving.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
The sentence is as complete in substance, and far terser in form, when it reads "An essential in cashing a check is that you should indorse it."
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
The tersest analysis of Christie’s entry in the race has come from Christie’s target, Trump.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023
A man crying also furnishes the Bible with its shortest, tersest line: “Jesus wept.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018
During a post-debate gaggle, the tersest Gillespie got was when a reporter tried to get clarity on whether he plans to invite Trump to the state.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2017
Mr. Tillerson is in many ways the personality opposite of Mr. Kerry: When asked a hard question he will offer the tersest answer possible, rather than attack with words.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2017
In his address of acceptance, then, Governor Cox stepped to the fore with the tersest of utterances as to his position on the League, compressing it all into "I favor going in."
From The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox by Charles E. Morris
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