gnomic

Example Sentences

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In a gnomic Jan. 31, 2023, post he urged his followers to “SELL.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

The Caucasus Mountains are high and terrible, and they are full of caves for gnomic tribes and nomads to hide in.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022

But a year of seismic shifts - sometimes heralded via gnomic regulatory comments in state media or a confusing melange of leaks - makes it front of mind.

From Reuters • Dec. 9, 2021

As the documentary notes, he was part of a movement that often prized obscurity — Ezra Pound’s gnomic poems, Gertrude Stein’s redundant prose — and gave it a more colloquial, less artsy feel.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2021

I wasn’t sure what to make of this gnomic utterance.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann