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Last month, the Fed released a remarkably terse statement after its June meeting, and Warsh batted away questions from reporters on the outlook for interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

In rare cases, their votes are revealed in terse indications that they grant or deny the application, or even more rarely, as an opinion.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

Maresca can often come across as distant and terse when dealing with the media.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Royal Brougham’s interest in what Al Ulbrickson was thinking was far from casual—much more than just a desire to fill out his daily column with yet another terse Ulbrickson quote.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

His cheeks embrowned with two years’ campaigning, his figure braced to a terser, firmer manhood; on Saladin’s back he seemed the personification of a young crusader just returned from the Holy Wars.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

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

Rapidity is gained by the omission of all unnecessary details, and the use of the shortest, tersest sentences to express the absolutely essential.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)