cryptic
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A Microsoft Windows social media account posted the same cryptic message.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
The lower courts would assume they still had to follow that precedent until it was overruled, rather than guess what a cryptic shadow docket order meant.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
“I don’t get it,” Anthony admits after one of Daniel’s cryptic explanations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 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
I studied them closely until they left the train, their shoulders rocking, their heavy heel plates clicking remote, cryptic messages in the brief silence of the train's stop.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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