cryptic
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Cryptic pregnancies, where a woman is unaware they are pregnant until late on, or as in Bryony's case, when in labour, have been described as "rare, but not exceptionally rare" by one midwifery professor.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
Cryptic, uncapitalized, and without a whisper of bedside manner, the messily typed diagnosis was grim: “You have e coli … i hope you didn’t go to italy … we need to txt with antibiotics.”
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2025
Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024
Cryptic to a fault, Abel Ferrara’s “Zeros and Ones” unfolds in a murkiness that’s both literal and ideological.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Cryptic notes scrawled on alley walls above where I slept.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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