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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

In response to an inquiry about whether there was enough food onboard, one ship responded in terse Farsi: “Do not worry about our food.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

His only terse response comes when pushed on what exactly those preconceptions were - and how quickly they took to disappear.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Supreme Court’s terse order agreed on both points.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

He only half listened to the fourth case and at the end of the terse testimony of the complaining witness he asked, “How much did you lose?”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

So do I. It's terser, more dramatic, and altogether a better advertisement.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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 our opinion, the ancient author did not consider it worth his while to give anything but the most indispensable information in the tersest form.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling