terse

In rare cases, their votes are revealed in terse indications that they grant or deny the application, or even more rarely, as an opinion.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

US President Donald Trump on one occasion held a terse phone call with Netanyahu, in which he reportedly uttered an expletive.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Instead of consulting, DHS sent a single terse email to the State Department, which did not even cover the topic of a country’s safety and instead asked about any general “foreign policy concerns.”

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Many of the entries in the brief, perplexing diary recovered with the body were terse observations of flora and fauna, which fueled speculation that McCandless was a field biologist.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

I vaguely thought he'd been killed off but here he is again, leaner, terser and a damn sight colder because the arch-villain has taken his parka and it's -20 in the badlands of South Dakota.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010

Still terser, but hardly less expressive, is Emerson's characterization of Lincoln as one who had been "permitted to do more for America than any other American man."

From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

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