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Mr. Winfield, by then playing for the California Angels, issued a terse statement in front of his locker: “I’m vindicated.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

Strabo’s terse description of “a public walk and a place furnished with seats, and a large hall” can be interpreted to suggest some sort of ambulatory with alcoves to the side, containing the scrolls.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

His answers to questions have become terser, his mood darker.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2017

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 Mayne Reid

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

So it came about that all the old classical works were composed in the tersest of language, as remote as can be imagined from the speech of the people.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various