succinct

Example Sentences

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Guggenheim’s questions about Goddard were succinct, reasonable and articulate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

He answered several questions with a succinct “I’ve got nothing for you on that.”

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

When told of the candidate’s party affiliation, there was the succinct response: “We’re not.”

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2025

Through Bentley and Kwedar’s telescope, “Train Dreams” feels like an epic in miniature, with an intimacy and scale that’s carried over from the succinct prose-poetry of Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella on which it’s based.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

Schopenhauer’s theories, like Wagner’s operas, could not be described as succinct, and they are consequently hard to summarise briefly, but the idea that caught Wagner’s imagination was that we humans are essentially irrational, emotional animals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall