in few words
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As back-channel compromise talks collapsed, negotiator Richard Ravitch summed up the mutual frustration to a union official in few words: “What a mess.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
For example, gwesht is considered an unlikely word of English, because the sequences gw and sht are found in few words of English.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2021
Carrie compared him to a haiku that says something profound in few words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2015
He likes the clever turns of phrase in Broadway songs that evoke emotion in few words.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 11, 2015
I explained to them, in few words, that I had heard all which had happened since I left Thornfield, and that I was come to see Mr. Rochester.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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