terse
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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
No wonder that Churchill, who had been asked to send a greeting for Baldwin’s 80th birthday, offered his terse judgment instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The Supreme Court’s terse order agreed on both points.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
True to his character, he replied with a terse but eloquent text.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
If he thought my response terse he didn’t show it.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
The ones I sent back are a little terser, though friendly, with plenty of encouragement about the book.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2013
They repeat in terser language what I ventured to utter four years ago regarding the Book of Genesis.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
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
Mill expounded in the tersest form the doctrines which in Bentham's hands spread into endless ramifications and lost themselves in minute details.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
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