cryptic

Example Sentences

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Her concurrence is too cryptic, though, to be of much use to lower courts trying to make sense of Gorsuch’s maximalist rhetoric.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Wardle said he wants to help "folks who haven't been able to break into cryptic crosswords, to teach them the rules".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

He approaches historical developments from odd angles as if deliberately trying to be cryptic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s cryptic weekend tweet has roused speculation about whether he is planning to build a semiconductor fabrication facility, or fab, something that costs tens of billions of dollars to build.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

The world’s greatest biological thinkers, having pored over the problem of heredity, had scarcely advanced the field beyond the cryptic musings of two men who had lived on two Greek islands two thousand years earlier.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee