cryptic

Example Sentences

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But C.C. did not flinch, other than to tilt her head slightly to the side as she worked through all those cryptic clues.

From Literature

An AI safety researcher has quit US firm Anthropic with a cryptic warning that the "world is in peril".

From BBC

Deputy Chair of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev made a cryptic statement on X, which included the phrase “winter is coming.”

From Salon

The sharp contrast between ancients and moderns, the tight syllabus of great books and the insistence that these books often bear cryptic meanings—all are Straussian signatures.

From The Wall Street Journal

"There's progress today on certain things. I don't want to be cryptic, but I would hate to say something was certain and it fell away."

From BBC