pithy
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Over lunch, Rutte offered a pithy proposal that would become his go-to strategy: Give Trump a win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
"Just so devastatingly crap" was the pithy and rather brutal view of one Labour MP in touch with me.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
They would funnel information and boil down data to pithy takeaways for their superiors.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
There’s no pressure to make pithy and profound comments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
He opened his mouth, waiting for his brain to supply the customary pithy comeback.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
David Ortiz, the fabled “Big Papi,” who hit .455 while leading the Red Sox to three titles, has a pithier explanation for success: “Some people got it, some people don’t.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
This edge looks rather delicate, I think — and I first learned it as the traditional edging style for the classic pithier pastry.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2021
For now, the new initiative is called the Collaborative Fund for Women’s Safety and Dignity, although there are plans to shift to a pithier name.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
His graphic designers countered with “Don’t Do It” and “Stand for It” before finally settling on the even pithier “Just Stand.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
Her eyes tore up and down the folded sail;—this sentence was different—sharper, pithier, better rounded than she had written it.
From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.
Gathering together some of the anthology’s pithiest and most striking quotations, Mr. Romm’s book is an intriguing and occasionally frustrating aperitif that doesn’t fully satisfy but is nonetheless stimulating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
The pithiest answers to my questions Monday came from Mariners reliever Paul Sewald.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
MacArthur had plenty of memorable quotes — “I shall return!” when he left the Philippines during World War II being the pithiest — but not that one.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
Section 230 versus the First Amendment One of the pithiest tech policy commentaries is a 2019 correction in The New York Times.
From The Verge ● Feb. 8, 2021
It was one of their pithiest sayings, and one of the wisest, too.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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