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Bank of America calculates this week’s Federal Open Market Committee statement explaining the decision to lift interest rates by a quarter-point as its most terse, at just 130 words, since 2007.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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
On Dec. 23, 1996, the Los Angeles Times published a terse and callous article about the young man’s slaying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Maresca can often come across as distant and terse when dealing with the media.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
On the sidelines, Agent Jones looked angry and tense as he barked terse orders.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
Hollister was quietly re-accepting her, so to speak, as the extraordinary wife—or, in other terser phrase, as Claire.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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
One of the most historic presidential letters on display is also the tersest: Nixon’s resignation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2016
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
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