curt
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A few unnecessarily curt speech interruptions threatened the calm, but mainly, this was a smoothly run machine of a show, devoid of mishaps.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
This has been the case since the dawn of mobile devices and algorithmic personalization, but forced separations may have turned curt, unexplained goodbyes into a perceived relationship norm.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
When he came off the ice, the hug from Tutberidze seemed curt.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
Until, that is, I noticed myself crossing some invisible line: I wasn’t just focused; I was curt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
Burr’s response was incisively curt: “having Considered it attentively,” he wrote, “I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to Value.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 7
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