cryptic

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What’s Next: A cryptic social media post by Nvidia last week fanned rumors that it will be making a chip for Windows PCs, something that could be announced at the GTC Taipei convention starting today.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

This is referred to as "cryptic mortality", which makes it difficult to estimate the scale of the problem.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

But when Google sent him a cryptic, legalistic email in early 2020 notifying him that the police were demanding access to some of his data, he was alarmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak have pinpointed a winter night in 2016 as the turning point, when the justices “issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling” on Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

Overhead signs with cryptic symbols and writing come and go before I can decipher them.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon