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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

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

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

Her uncle’s terse petitions were hard enough to endure; this prayer, she knew, would be a lengthy masterpiece.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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 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