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In response to an inquiry about whether there was enough food onboard, one ship responded in terse Farsi: “Do not worry about our food.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

His only terse response comes when pushed on what exactly those preconceptions were - and how quickly they took to disappear.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

True to his character, he replied with a terse but eloquent text.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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

I reach out to touch Phil’s elbow, but a terse voice makes me drop my hand.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

Sanders is not only more infrequent but also terser.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019

So do I. It's terser, more dramatic, and altogether a better advertisement.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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

The deep voice filled in the pause also in tersest English.

From Desert Love by Joan Conquest